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- Accessing a Floppy Disk
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- SUMMARY
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- The FLOPPY sample is designed to show how to access a physical floppy disk
- under Windows NT.
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- This program has two major features:
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- - It can be used to display the geometry of a disk. For example, use the
- command:
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- mfmt -g a:
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- - It can be used to produce a disk image, or to write a disk image to a
- floppy. For example, use the commands:
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- mfmt -c a: bootdisk - produce a disk image of a:
- mfmt -c bootdisk a: - make a: identical to bootdisk image
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- MORE INFORMATION
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- This program is very simple. Minimal error checking is done. It is meant to
- provide an example of how to:
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- - Open a physical disk.
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- - Read a disk's geometry.
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- - Perform a low-level format operation.
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- - Read and write physical sectors.
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