X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:43:21 -0600 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:43:20 -0800 From: Jim Michaels User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: 64-bit int? segment-offset pointers? and biosdisk.c References: <4a-dnX9djZFzTSLanZ2dnUVZ_rmjnZ2d AT comcast DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 39 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.110.103 X-Trace: sv3-FJXmQfL7HWXO7V9Px6GqEk2n3gbqcFfzL1pC/eUq2MmTQqQ9FhitIejVs3b0sH4uQfJVXR5H2CMXicg!+iGtB80wWwV6cVbp/AoBlihLuPK1jh3J8sn2RTRQ4DRPYj1MUMJB8Btcb9H+kxzYd2IUCMViSPMe!nOP/4nuxGGiZIT63hiSoiu8IBQyF1g== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT comcast DOT net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca AT comcast DOT net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Rod Pemberton wrote: > "Jim Michaels" wrote in message > news:4a-dnX9djZFzTSLanZ2dnUVZ_rmjnZ2d AT comcast DOT com... >> 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 biosdisk.c contains code that is now out of date for modern sized disks.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 > I just got my first test program working. well, sort of. it does 5000 random seeks. while the functions succeed on my dell computer which is more up-to-date (2004) however it doesn't do any seeking, the Extended Seeks fail with error 02 (Bad Address Mark) on my earlier ASUS A7V-E (circa 137GB bios limitation), failing fast on the zeroed disk and slow on the xp disk. The disk is not bad. it has a working windows XP on it. I don't understand what's going on. the program did successfully get the disk parameters. -- Jim Michaels for email, edit the address