Re: Can someone please send me a list of the hard drive types 1-15 for bios

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:34

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>>>>> On 28 Dec 92 21:07:48 GMT, russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell) said:
Steve> In article <1hl98oINNdcm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes:
>Can you please send me the bios types of hard drives,there are 1_15 listed in
>my setup file.
>I have a 42 meg seagate st-251
>and a fuji 20 meg.
>Please,any help is appreciated.
>LEAVE MAIL
Steve> That kinda, sorta depends on the bios vendor and which drive types were put

This info can be read from BIOS: set type 1, boot and look data pointed
by vector 41h (46h for 2-nd drive, as I remember). 16 bytes for every
type shows information like cylinder count, head count, sectors/track,
park cylinder, write precompensation cylinder. I don't remember 'what
is what', but it should be easy to guess...

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