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From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid>
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Subject: Re: Reading sectors: Error 0x701F
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:50:31 GMT
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:24:26 +0100 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, John
Elliott <jce AT seasip DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>   I'm trying to write a program that reads sectors from a hard drive 
>using either INT 25h or INT 21h/AX=7305h.
>
>   If I run it under Windows ME, the reads fail with error 0x701F, 
>whether it's operating on a FAT32 drive or a FAT16 drive. I can't find 
>any mention of this error in documentation; it turns up once or twice on 
>Usenet, always in the context of calling INT 25h or INT 21h/AX=7305h 
>from a DOS extender. That suggests I've made an error setting up the 
>__dpmi_regs when making the call, but if so I can't see what it is. Does 
>anyone have any suggestions?

Why not use biosdisk() instead of going through DOS? 
Worked fine for me on floppy and hard drives. 

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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis 	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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