Reading data from specific Track/Sector/Side of floppy 
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 Reading data from specific Track/Sector/Side of floppy

Doea anyone know of a way to read a specific amount of data from a
floppy disk from a specified Side/Track/Sector?

TIA

--
Roger Parry



Sat, 02 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT  
 Reading data from specific Track/Sector/Side of floppy

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>Doea anyone know of a way to read a specific amount of data from a
>floppy disk from a specified Side/Track/Sector?

Roger, you'll need a DLL to help you do this, but all you need
to do is call a BIOS interrupt.  The parameters you give it
tell it which side of the floppy to read, which track, and
which sector.  You can read sector by sector.  It's INT 13h
that you want to take a look at.
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Systems Analyst         WWW:    http://www.phoenix.net/~getj


Sun, 03 May 1998 03:00:00 GMT  
 
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