From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: direct hard drive controll? Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 X-Trace: /wLwTaaiuIUzkM+eLK9b8m7Vnq+BPUc/4nDL9M4G1GmLvJSe5QKEDTZJ5Nnyyb2tl6YCLxRUpNmP!sCy4OR9GkqZ8sicN9xsLOGwqz2h64IB+mCQlhrfNngc9xlvW98yyG8Sw5JHhxxEFA0AmRTgaix6x!cpWv X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:45:02 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:45:02 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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. -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/