Re: read floppy problem

On 25 Oct 2005 19:17:37 -0700, cmk128@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi
> My buffer is pointed to 0x1000:0x0, then i can read 72 sectors a
>time, if 73, fail.
Interesting. For a 1.44 fd (which IIRC is 18 sectors/track), that is
exactly 2 cyls (4 tracks). I presume that you are not running off the
end of the floppy, and that you started reading at sector 1 of some
track. Now, why the bios allow one seek and then quit? I don't know.


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