Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:16:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Mr. Lin" <loy AT tm DOT net DOT my>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with function biosdisk() ... unexplained !
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Mr. Lin wrote:

> I was experimenting with the calls biosdisk() and _bios_disk() from DJGPP
> 2.0.  It seems like both of these calls gives different return
> values and I can't seem to explain it. Could it be a bug ??

I think the bug is in your code.  The following line:

>        diskInfo.buffer = &recordBuffer ;

should have said this instead:

>        diskInfo.buffer = recordBuffer ;

In other words, if you need an address of a buffer, pass its name, not
the address of its name.