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Re: Programming Hard Drive access?

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From: Root Of All Evil
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1989 15:59
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In article <3859@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
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>After looking through both the Laser C manual and the 2 Abacus books, I still
>haven't a clue how to go about doing sector level hard drive access from a
>C or assembly language program.  Can anyone either tell me how to do this or
>point me to a reference?

Check out the Bios (Xbios?) routine Rwabs.

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Subject: Re: Programming Hard Drive access?
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