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- From: eaytttet@sjoki.uta.fi (Tero Tervala)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: problems using int 25h
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 08:59:13 +0300
- Organization: Univ of Tampere, Inst for Extension Studies
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- doc@uiuc.edu (Jim Marco) writes:
- : 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
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- I don't know if it helps anything, but try using BIOS sector read functions
- (INT 13h) I think you'll have to write the calling functions by yourself,
- I don't remember that Turbo C had those functions by default.
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