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From: emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Turbo-C 2.0 absread() / abswrite()
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.071240.8847@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 07:12:40 GMT
Reply-To: emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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I am experiencing problems using absread() / abswrite() to access raw
(not-neccessarily-msdos) floppies.  I am unable to read side 1 of
disks...  reads walk down side 0 from track 0 to track 359 with no
problem (360K drives...); however the second side of the disk does not
seem to be accessible.  It would seem to me that absread/abswrite could
reasonably try reading from other heads on the device (like after the
last track on side 0 or something).  What's the point of this system
call, besides accessing single-sided devices ONLY?  Guess I will have
to use biosdisk(), which I wanted to avoid...

Thanks,
Scott
				L. Scott Emmons
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