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From: TRM900@PSUVM.BITNET (Tony R. Marasco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Direct floppy disk access
Message-ID: <89243.002455TRM900@PSUVM>
Date: 31 Aug 89 04:24:55 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Disclaimer: The following text does not reflect the views of Penn State Univ.

I am looking for any information on accessing the IBM PC floppy disk
directly.  By directly I mean pointing the head to specific track & side
and writing/reading information BYPASSING DOS.  I know this task is
possible on my Model IV using the OUT and INP commands.  I am not
extremely familiar with PC Assembler, but I believe OUT/INP exist in
Basic and Turbo PASCAL.

I hope I expressed myself clearly.  Any help/comments are greatly
appreciated.  Also, since I rarely read this group, e-mail would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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