What is INT 24 ?

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From: Tony Niamath
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 23:24

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I have a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive on my PC that is not working properly.
Recently, I have been unable to read disks on the B drive and whenever
I try to inspect the directory of any of my 3 1/2 inch floppies, 
DOS 5.0 gives me the typical "General Failure" error . After I
hit retry a few times and then finaly "F" for fail, I get the
message "Fail on INT 24".

Does anyone know specifically what interrupt 24 does? Drive B sometimes
works for a day and then won't read anything for weeks. 


- Tony.

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