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to: KURT WISMER
from: FRANOIS FUSTIN
date: 1997-08-07 22:59:00
subject: question about int 13h..

Hi Kurt Wismer, hope you are having a nice day.
Saturday, 2 August 1997 18:41:58, Kurt Wismer wrote to All Subject:
question about int 13h..
 KW> ok, i have a quick question about something my source of info
 KW> doesn't explicitly state...
 KW> int 13h, function 8h returns the number of tracks and the
 KW> number of sectors per track in cx... it also seems to return
 KW> something in ax which my info doesn't make mention of but what
 KW> seems to be just the number of sectors per track all by itself...
 KW> i was wondering if that is what is actually happening or if it
 KW> was just a coincidence... i certainly wouldn't mind dropping the
 KW> three bytes needed for and cx, 3f if i could just get the number i
 KW> want from ax...
I see in the Ralf Brown's interrupt list that AX is set to 0 if there is no
problem. Else it contains the error number.
.!. He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame.
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