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low-level os-independent disk access
Thanks, Sarnath. This second article was great. I had read some of it before, but maybe missed the meaty part. That's super. I'm so excited now. I've been searching Google for days, finding page after page of disappointment. You da man. -
low-level os-independent disk access
Thanks for the response, Sarnath. I know that int13 can be used to read hard drives, but only up to 8GB. I want to know the standard, os-independent way of accessing sectors on a drive >8GB. I think you have to use int13h extensions, but am not sure of the details. How would CHS work for... -
low-level os-independent disk access
Hi. To understand my situation: I'm making an OS-type-thingy that loads from a floppy, and then basically reads the contents of any part(maybe one sector, maybe more) of the hard drive, or partition for further processing (kinda like a sector-editor). This hard drive might be 500MB or 100GB...
