From: NoEmailAds AT execpc DOT com (Chris Giese) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: 18-sector limit with biosdisk() Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:47:48 GMT Organization: PROPULSION GROUP X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3a80a97c$0$96560$272ea4a1@news.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 682454f0.news.execpc.com X-Trace: DXC=aNX\hZ47f`j^]]:mm?8lO<3E9iRX47P3[O;JB`F]4 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT execpc DOT com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >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 -- geezer@ | pmode tutorial, homebrew OS: execpc.com | http://www.execpc.com/~geezer/os