Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!nott-cs!percy.cs.bham.ac.uk!cjr From: cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Rwabs/Hard Disks Keywords: sozobon,rwabs,hard disks Message-ID: <937@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: 18 Mar 90 15:23:12 GMT References: <2121@onion.reading.ac.uk> Organization: Birmingham University, England Lines: 26 In article <2121@onion.reading.ac.uk> adp1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk writes: > Hello, > > A)... > I tried yesterday to write a program to read in the FAT table and the root > directory off a disk using the Rwabs(..) call in sozobon C. It seemed to do > this fine on disks A and B, but an attempt to do this off my hard disk caused > a crash/lockup on the Rwabs call. > [deleted] > Andrew. Could someone give a short description of the parameters to Rwabs? All the ones I've seen say something like the device number is: 0 Floppy A: 1 Floppy B: 2+ Hard disks/networks etc So, if I wanted to read some sector on drive D:, what would I give? Thanks! Chris -- Chris Ridd, Computer Science, Birmingham Uni, UK -- RiddCJ@Cs.Bham.Ac.Uk -- "'It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it,' said War testily, 'the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse.'" - Sourcery