What are IOCTL to read sector from floppy.

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Hello,
I want to know what IOCTL’s are available to do IO with floppy.
I dont want to use ReadFile and WriteFile.

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“TheDonx” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> I want to know what IOCTL’s are available to do IO with floppy.
> I dont want to use ReadFile and WriteFile.
>
a) why not?

b) did you check the DDK?

Peter
OSR

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Do you need get a Handle from floppy using CreateFile on “\\.\FloppyX” (X
is the number of floppy). Then do you can read and write physical sectors
using ReadFile and WriteFile functions. Don’t forget CloseHandle on
terminate access.

Heldai
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> Hello,
> I want to know what IOCTL’s are available to do IO with floppy.
> I dont want to use ReadFile and WriteFile.
>
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