Gee, it would be nice to get an industry-wide standard that reduced every
disk access to block numbers, implemented inside the controller firmware. No
more head track sector wars, just delegate it to the embedded guys !
Alberto.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Viscarola [mailto:xxxxx@osr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:49 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Reading/Writing floppy sectors through 13h
interrupt under NT,2000
“int3” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> This link might give u more information :
> http://www.codeguru.com/system/ReadSector.html
>
Do these IOCTLs actually work on NT? I don’t know, but I’d be surprised…
You’re CERTAIN that what you need to do is read a “particular” cyl, track,
head? A relative sector-offset onto the disk won’t do?
I can’t say I really understand that concept of “disk geometry” in these
days of devices that do their own translation no matter what you ask for.
Like I often say: Perhaps it would be better for you to give us a broader
picture of what it is that you’re trying to accomplish, and then maybe we
can suggest a way for you to best accomplish that. Sometimes asking “how
can I do specific thing X” is the wrong question, right? If you ask “How do
I accomplish this general task” we might give you an answer that doesn’t
involve having to do specific task X.
Peter
OSR
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