*** Kurt Wismer wrote in a message to Scott Mcnay:
KW> i know it's handled by the bios, i essentially want to know
KW> how to use the bios routines (like int 13h) to access beyond
KW> the normal 512meg limit... the perspective i'm coming from
KW> at the moment is that it's patently obvious that normal int
KW> 13h calls can't access that far, every last bit is squeezed
KW> out of cx for sectors per track and # of cylinders... so the
KW> very least that has to happen is that some change has to be
KW> made to the way those numbers are passed to the int
KW> routine...
SM> This is listed in PORTS.LST in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List package,
KW> hmmm... i guess i'm going to have to see if i can get the
KW> latest version of the list one of these days...
EVERYTHING is in Ralf's list. ;)
Accessing the drive via the BIOS shouldn't be a problem for over 512M, since
the BIOS translates the parameters to something that it CAN handle via with
standard calls.
--Scott.
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