Accessing the sectors of an harddisk

Hallo allemaal,


I build hardware for the good old Commodore machines. One of my
projects is connecting a xx GB harddisk to a 1541 floppy drive. This
works fine so far. But a problem is the huge amount of data (seen from
the point of view of a Commodore). One idea I have is using disk
brackets and using a PC for huge data movements. Being a Turbo Pascal
programmer this isn't a problem. But I also want to be able to do that
under Delphi. I'm familiar with Delphi. But I already found out that
using the PORT command doesn't work out under XP.

So my main question: How can I access and edit the sectors of an
harddisk directly?

FYI:
- I'm using my own filesystem
- I'm only using 8 bits (and thus waisting half of the capacity)

Thanks for any info/help !!!


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