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- From: digiuser@robert.byu.edu (Robert Perkins)
- Subject: Accessing the partition tables and the CMOS memory on a PC: how do you do it?
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- Organization: Brigham Young University -- Mathematics Department
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 00:04:51 GMT
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- I want to be able to access and alter the partition table on fixed disks that
- are installed on a PC (be they IDE, MFM, SCSI, ESDI, I don't care, I need a
- general method that works for all types of drives...) for a program I'm writing
- (a learning excercise really), as well as looking at CMOS memory (the
- configuration memory that every pc has these days...) to determine the types of
- drives installed...
-
- Can someone point out a method, or several methods, to do this? Or post
- references to literature that will point me in the right direction? Much
- appreciated,
-
- --
- Rob Perkins
- --BYU Systems Software Support Technician--
- And then the Programmer, tired and worn from reality, slipped quietly into
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