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From: rmarks@ksp.unisys.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Print Disk Type Table
Summary: typenum.arc -- Print the bios disk type table found on ATs && 386s.
Message-ID: <1178@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 88 19:07:38 GMT
Sender: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Organization: Unisys Corp. Knowledge Systems Projects
Lines: 228
Approved: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

This utility prints out the BIOS disk type table.  It works on
all the 286 and 386 machines I tried; but it failed on one older
8088 machine.

I do not really know where the BIOS keeps the base address of the
table.  But I do know that INT 41 (0x104) is set to the entry for
the drive C disk (unless some utility or super disk handler changes
this).  All this program does is go to loc 104, scan back to what
looks like an invalid entry and then print forward till another
invalid entry.

So be careful when using this program.  Maybe someone out there
can tell me exactly how to get the base address and size.

Richard Marks
rmarks@KSP.unisys.COM

Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
TYPENUM.C         1520  Crunched   40%       923   8 Jul 88   3:09p  3f56
TYPENUM.EXE      10888  Crunched   25%      8233   8 Jul 88   3:09p  56e5
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      2     12408             27%      9156

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