Direct BIOS disk access possible?

[Paul D.Smith]

Is is possible to get direct BIOS access using INT13H to floppy drives? I'm
trying to figure out a way to close some olde floppies that have 256 bytes
per sector, which is not supported by the higher level Windows media
formats.

Thanks,
Paul DS.

 

[George Valkov]

I don't know almost anything about direct access from Windows XP, but You
should be able to read and write to it by sectors. I don't think that
Windows XP will let you call BIOS functions. But it will probably let you
install a driver filter that sends whatever you want to the floppy
controller.


"Paul D.Smith" wrote:
| Is is possible to get direct BIOS access using INT13H to floppy drives?
I'm
| trying to figure out a way to close some olde floppies that have 256 bytes
| per sector, which is not supported by the higher level Windows media
| formats.
|
| Thanks,
| Paul DS.
|
|

 

[Paul D.Smith]

"George Valkov" <a@b.com> wrote in message
news:%23MR%234s03HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I don't know almost anything about direct access from Windows XP, but You
> should be able to read and write to it by sectors. I don't think that
> Windows XP will let you call BIOS functions. But it will probably let you
> install a driver filter that sends whatever you want to the floppy
> controller.

Thanks - I'm looking at Omniflop and fdrawcmd which seem to be what I need.

Paul DS.