Interpreting InfoTool
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:08 am
I'm running InfoTool on my wife's computer with a mind to backing up the CD burner firmware with mtkflash. While I can understand the output of InfoTool on my computer, on my wife's computer I don't get info I understand. Specifically, I need to know if the CD burner is set up as master or slave on primary or secondary IDE channel. On my computer, I get this spelled out explicitly by InfoTool. On my wife's computer (an HP Pavilion) I get a message that the DVD rom drive is located at 0:0 and the CD burner is at 0:1. I get the impression that the HP only has one IDE channel. This is a somewhat older machine (Pentium II/400) than mine and I'm not real familiar with the internal workings.