Direct BIOS disk access possible?

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Paul D.Smith

Is is possible to get direct BIOS access using INT13H to floppy drives? I'm
trying to figure out a way to close some olde floppies that have 256 bytes
per sector, which is not supported by the higher level Windows media
formats.

Thanks,
Paul DS.
 
I don't know almost anything about direct access from Windows XP, but You
should be able to read and write to it by sectors. I don't think that
Windows XP will let you call BIOS functions. But it will probably let you
install a driver filter that sends whatever you want to the floppy
controller.


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| Is is possible to get direct BIOS access using INT13H to floppy drives?
I'm
| trying to figure out a way to close some olde floppies that have 256 bytes
| per sector, which is not supported by the higher level Windows media
| formats.
|
| Thanks,
| Paul DS.
|
|
 
George Valkov said:
I don't know almost anything about direct access from Windows XP, but You
should be able to read and write to it by sectors. I don't think that
Windows XP will let you call BIOS functions. But it will probably let you
install a driver filter that sends whatever you want to the floppy
controller.
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Thanks - I'm looking at Omniflop and fdrawcmd which seem to be what I need.

Paul DS.
 
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