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Copyright 1991 David Jurgens |
INT 13,3 - Write Disk Sectors
AH = 03
AL = number of sectors to write (1-128 dec.)
CH = track/cylinder number (0-1023 dec.)
CL = sector number (1-17 dec., see below)
DH = head number (0-15 dec.)
DL = drive number (0=A:, 1=2nd floppy, 80h=drive 0, 81h=drive 1)
ES:BX = pointer to buffer
on return:
AH = 0 if CF=0; otherwise disk status (see INT 13,STATUS)
AL = number of sectors written
CF = 0 if successful
= 1 if error
- BIOS disk write attempts should reset the controller on error
- be sure ES:BX does not cross a 64K segment boundary or a
DMA boundary error will occur
- IBM PC XT 286 does not require a value in AL, though it is
recommended that one be supplied for portability
- many programming references list only floppy disk register values
- only the disk number is checked for validity
- the parameters in CX change depending on the number of cylinders;
the track/cylinder number is a 10 bit value taken from the 2 high
order bits of CL and the 8 bits in CH (low order 8 bits of track):
│F│E│D│C│B│A│9│8│7│6│5-0│ CX
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───── sector number
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┴─────── high order 2 bits of track/cylinder
└─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴────────── low order 8 bits of track/cyl number
- see INT 13,B
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