Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:19:09 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Vincenzo Morello <morellov AT tin DOT it>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: _bios_disk() inefficiency
In-Reply-To:	<35034386.52CE@tin.it>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980309111849.22925E-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Vincenzo Morello wrote:

> Now I get good performance in DJGPP as well as in BC. I only have to reduce
> the number of sectors-to-read to 18 (BC allows a maximum of 127).

If you really need that, you could write your own version of
`_bios_disk' which can break the 18-sector barrier (by using
`__dpmi_int' directly).

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