The info command displays summary information about a drives and disk images.
To show the floppy drive and controller types, and supported data rates:
SAMdisk info a:
Typical output:
A:
Drive type : 3.5" (from BIOS)
Controller : 82077
Data rates : 250K/300K/500K/1M
Bus Number : 1/0
Cntrl/Unit : 0/1
To show disk image type, and basic geometry:
SAMdisk info image.dsk:
Fixed formats show the specific track format used:
[image.mgt]
Type: MGT
Format: 250Kbps MFM, 80 Cyls, 2 Heads, 10 Sectors, 512 bytes/sector.
Flexible formats show only the track range stored in the image:
[image.dsk]
Type: EDSK
Size: 83 Cyls, 2 Heads
To show make+model, serial number, firmware revision, capacity, and CHS geometry (if below 8GB) for a hard disk or equivalent block device.
SAMdisk info 0:
Drives containing MBR partition tables also show the primary partition types, and any logical drives, including type, location, and size:
[0:]
Name: ST380021A
Serial: 3HV0F66E
Firmware: 3.10
Capacity: 80026361856 bytes = 156301488 sectors = 80GB
Volumes: C: D:
MBR: 1 = NTFS/HPFS, start:63, len:20964762 = 11GB, bootable
2 = NTFS Hidden, start:20964825, len:20964825 = 11GB
3 = (Extended LBA), start:62894475, len:93401910 = 48GB
Linux native, start:62894538, len:16002 = 8MB
Linux native, start:62910603, len:20964762 = 11GB
BeOS BFS, start:83875428, len:20964762 = 11GB
BeOS BFS, start:104840253, len:20964762 = 11GB
Linux native, start:125805078, len:20964762 = 11GB
FAT32, start:146769903, len:5333517 = 2731MB
Linux swap, start:152103483, len:4192902 = 2GB
Identify: 512 bytes
BDOS drives (for Atom and Atom Lite) display the format and record count:
[3:]
Name: Generic-Compact Flash
Firmware: 1.01
Capacity: 524869632 bytes = 1025136 sectors = 525MB
Geometry: 1017 Cyls, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors
Format: Atom Lite, 641 records, bootable
Volumes: F:
If the details indicates identify information is available, add -v to display it as a hex dump.