Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/02/06/21:11:35
| From: | NoEmailAds AT execpc DOT com (Chris Giese)
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| Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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| Subject: | 18-sector limit with biosdisk()
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| Date: | Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:47:48 GMT
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>Requests for more sectors than 18 sectors (9K) will fail.
Could this limit be removed in the next version of the C library?
Or raised to 21 sectors? The Win95 install floppies have
21 sectors per track (1.68 meg per disk), as do various
demo disks, OS boot disks, etc.
Regards,
Chris Giese
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