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- From: Auke.Reitsma@net.HCC.nl (Auke Reitsma)
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- Subject: Re: problems using int 25h
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:40:44 GMT
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- doc@uiuc.edu (Jim Marco) wrote:
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- > I'm trying to write a program (in Turbo C 2.0) that scans the hard disk looking
- > for certain file signatures. I want this program to scan sector by sector, so
- > I tried using int 25h via the Turbo C absread() command. The problem is, the
- > program works as intended on drive C: which is a 20 meg PC-DOS 5.0 partition,
- > but not on drive D: which is a 300 meg partition (same OS). The call keeps
- > returning a "sector not found" error even for low sector values. Can anyone
- > shed any light on this? Thanks in advance.
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- TC2 does not have support for disks larger than 30 MB.
- I believe SNIPPETS has a replacement absread() ...
- You should be able to find Snippets at ftp.brokersys.com /pub/snippets
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- Greetings from Delft, The Netherlands.
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- Auke Reitsma
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