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From: Prashant Ramachandra <rprash AT wilco-int DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Reading Disk Sectors
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:34:23 +0530 
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On Monday, December 04, 2000 12:18 AM, Clive Minnican
[SMTP:clive_minnican AT hotmail DOT com] wrote:
| "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
| news:200012011859 DOT NAA20531 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com...
| >
| > >   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?

Yes. C0H0S1 is the very first logical sector on a disk.
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