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From: samperi@magpie.UUCP (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Absolute floppy disk sector read/write
Message-ID: <120@magpie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 10:12:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 10:12:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 13:00:55 EDT
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It seems that the DOS interrupt 0x25 (absolute disk sector read) can only
be used to read the first 720 sectors on a high density floppy (installed
in the high density drive of an AT). I've had to use the bios disk service
2 in order to read all 2400 sectors. Is this a DOS bug?


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	Dominick Samperi 
	Manhattan College
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