Category: DOS kernel
INT 26 - DOS 3.31+ - ABSOLUTE DISK WRITE (32M-2047M hard-disk partition) CX = FFFFh AL = drive number (0=A, 1=B, etc) DS:BX -> disk write packet (see #02552) Return: CF clear if successful CF set on error AH = status (see #02547) AL = error code (same as passed to INT 24 in DI) may destroy all other registers except segment registers Notes: partition is potentially >32M (and requires this form of the call) if bit 1 of the device attribute word in the device driver is set original flags are left on stack, and must be removed by caller this call bypasses the DOS filesystem, though DOS 5+ invalidates any disk buffers referencing sectors which are written with this call for FAT32 drives (which may be up to 2TB in size), use INT 21/AX=7305h Windows98 will display an error message and deliberately hang the system on attempted write to any hard disk if neither bit 7 of the Extended Drive Info byte nor bit 6 of "DOS_FLAG" (List-of-Lists+60h) is set SeeAlso: INT 13/AH=03h,INT 25/CX=FFFFh,INT 26,INT 21/AX=7305h