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From: root@yale.UUCP (Root Of All Evil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Programming Hard Drive access?
Message-ID: <73494@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 15:59:22 GMT
References: <3859@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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In article <3859@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
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>After looking through both the Laser C manual and the 2 Abacus books, I still
>haven't a clue how to go about doing sector level hard drive access from a
>C or assembly language program.  Can anyone either tell me how to do this or
>point me to a reference?

Check out the Bios (Xbios?) routine Rwabs.

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