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From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT nohavenot DOT cmm>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit int?  segment-offset pointers? and biosdisk.c
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:07:18 -0500
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"Jim Michaels" <jmichae3REMOVE AT THISPLEASEyahoo DOT com> wrote in message
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> does gcc handle a 64-bit int in 2.03?  if so, what type is it called?
>
> I was hoping to see if I could rewrite the existing biosdisk library
> with the new int13h extensions (as of 1995).
>
http://www.phoenix.com/NR/rdonlyres/9BEDED98-6B3F-4DAC-BBB7-FA89FA5C30F0/0/specsedd11.pdf
> contains a reference to these, which refer to LBA methods of accessing
> the disk as well as chs, but using subfunctions 41-4e, and there is an
> eject media check function in int 15h.  similar documents exist.
>
> biosdisk.c contains code that is now out of date for modern sized disks.
>

EDD version 1.1 is dated May 9, 1995.  EDD version 3.0 revision 0.8 is dated
March 12, 1998.

EDD v3.0r0.8
http://www.phoenix.com/NR/rdonlyres/19FEBD17-DB40-413C-A0B1-1F3F560E222F/0/specsedd30.pdf


Rod Pemberton