From:	"Clive Minnican" <clive_minnican AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Reading Disk Sectors
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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
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>
> >   di.sector = 0;
>
> The first sector is sector 1, not sector 0.

Thanks, I changed it around and everything now works fine. How come the
format for sector is inconsistent with track and side, ie they start
numbering from 0, is that how the original bios functions work?

Clive.

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