[ Brian McCloud muttered to Brian Roche ]
BR> As long as software is using Dos/Int 21h routines, it won't handle
BR> renumbered or crazy sector numbers put in with Bios/Int 13h routines,
BR> which was what the majority of Copy-protection schemes used.
BM> I don't think my DiskCopy is using int 21h calls... I thinks it's
BM> using the int 13h calls... from the diskette with bad sectors I tried
BM> to copy, it tried but failed to read many of the sectors which had been
BM> marked as bad.
iirc, the MS-dos diskcopy and format generate calls through the IOCTL
functions in int 21h rather than directly going int 13h.
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