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> From: "arizvi" <ahmadwaris AT hotmail DOT com>
> Date: 4 Mar 2005 07:13:15 -0800
> 
> To make it more clear, it is the disk address packet which I need to
> transfer to protected mode memory. The LBA number in the disk address
> packet needs to increase by one after each IO. I do the increment in
> conventional memory, and then transfer the packet to DOS using
> dosmemput. After the IO is done, I read back to status of the IO by
> doing a dosmemget. Can there be a way to eliminate the data copying
> altogether? And be able to read the status of the IO as well.

If all you need is read and write simple data types, like 32-bit
int's, I suggest using the farptr functions such as _farpeekl and
_farpokel.  (They are described in the library docs; from the shell
prompt type "info libc alpha _far" and read there.)  When you compile
with optimizations, these function expand into fast inline assembly,
usually a single MOV instruction, and that is about the fastest
possible way of accessing variables in conventional memory.