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From: "Angelene and Klaus Thane" <thane AT nospam DOT net>
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Subject: Re: biosdisk & int 13 extensions
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:53:14 -0600
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Inp.:
 AH = 48h
 DL = drive (80h-FFh)
 DS:SI -> buffer for drive parameters (see #0183)
Return: CF clear if successful
     AH = 00h
     DS:SI buffer filled
 CF set on error
     AH = error code (see #0144)


Format of IBM/MS INT 13 Extensions drive parameters:
Offset Size Description
 00h WORD (call) size of buffer (001Ah for v1.x, 001Eh for v2.x)
  (ret) size of returned data
 02h WORD information flags (see #0184)
 04h DWORD number of physical cylinders on drive
 08h DWORD number of physical heads on drive
 0Ch DWORD number of physical sectors per track
 10h QWORD total number of sectors on drive
 18h WORD bytes per sector
---v2.0+ ---
 1Ah DWORD -> EDD configuration parameters (see #0186)
  FFFFh:FFFFh if not available
Note: if the size is less than 30 on call, the final DWORD will not be
   returned by a v2.x implementation


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