Re: Accessing an harddisk directly

"Ruud"
> Hallo allemaal,
>
>
> Is there a way to access a sector of an harddisk using the INTR or
> other Pascal procedure? I'm familiar with the old INTR($13, regs)
> procedure where you have provide the track, head and sector but a) the
> info I have dates from the DOS 3.3 era and b) I need a method that is
> equivalent to the LBA mode; just give the number of the sector.
>
> I'm busy with connecting a 6.4 GB harddisk to the 1541 drive of a
> Commodore 64. Things seem to work out fine but filling the drive with
> data is a bit of a problem. So I thought about letting a PC do that
> job.
>
> Thanks for any info, URL or whatever !!!
>
>
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RawDiskAccess = Direct, low-level raw HD drive access
open source with a demo (requires D7)
http://www.e-f-w.com/content.php?cid=rda