From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: direct hard drive controll?
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:54:13 GMT, nunnayod AT mbiz DOT nez (CaffineLady)
wrote:

>Hi, Im kind of new to djgpp in general so forgive my ignorance, but I 
>was wandering if there was a way to directly access the hard drives to 
>make the actuator move to a specific track..

Not possible with modern ATA drives.  Their IDEs translate a
cyl/head/sector number provided by BIOS into a block number into
an _internal_ cyl/head/sector number, and then write the data.

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