At 12:17 PM 12/1/1998  Winston Pike  wrote:
>
>  I have a Zenith SuperSport 286 laptop that has a Conner model
> CP-343 hard drive. I need the drive parameters so that I can try
> working with it again.


Winston:

If the hard drive parameters are not available, you can use
software, such as IDEID.EXE from Micro House to identify the
drive and its parameters. This software will read the firmware
on the drive itself for purposes of identifying the hard drive make,
model and drive parameters. I recommended you keep an
utility such as IDEID.EXE on your BOOT FLOPPY for diagnostic
purposes.

You can get  IDEID.ZIP  from the MicroHouse Website at:

     http://www.solutions.microhouse.com/support/files/misc.htm

or from their FTP site at:

     ftp://ftp.microhouse.com/MHUTILS/

Also, Seagate has a similar utility, Find-ATA, at:

     http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discfile.shtml

The software issues a command to any properly connected drive
and retrieves the firmware information, even if there are no HDD
parameters in CMOS, or incorrect geometry.

NOSPIN also has an article on IDE Hard Drives, which I wrote,
starting at:

     http://www.nospin.com/pc/hd/index.htm

and it contains detailed installation notes and links.

Regards,

John Chin

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