From: "Frank Troy Cook Jr." <fcook1 AT carolina DOT rr DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: bit and bytes ... help   [  biosdisk  ]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:55:06 GMT
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i need to extract drive information returned from a biosdisk call. for
example:

main()
{
        int count;
        char buffer[512];
        biosdisk(8, 0x80, 0, 0, 0, 1, buffer);
        for(count=0; count < 4; count++)
        {
                printf("%u ", buffer[count]);
        }
        printf("\n");
}

i understandfrom the djgpp site that the first 4 bytes return:
byte 0 = sectors per track (bits 0..5) and top two bits of cylinder (in bits
6..7)
byte 1 = cyliders (bits 0..7)
byte 2 = number of drives
byte 3 = number of heads
how do i convert this to integer numbers correctly?

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