HelpPC 2.10 Quick Reference Utility Copyright 1991 David Jurgens

            DPT/DPB - Drive Parameter Table / Disk Parameter Block

    Offset Size                Description

       00   byte       drive (0 = A, 1 = B)
       01   byte       unit within device, usually equals drive (ramdisk=0)
       02   word       bytes per sector
       04   byte       sectors per cluster minus 1
       05   byte       sectors per cluster (times to shift left or x2)
       06   word       number of sectors before FAT (boot sectors)
       08   byte       number of FAT copies
       09   word       number of root directory entries
       0B   word       number of first data sector
       0D   word       total number of clusters plus 1
       0F   byte       number of sectors used by first FAT

       The following fields are DOS version dependant

       10   word       number of first sector in root directory
       12   dword      far pointer to current disk device header
       16   byte       media descriptor byte (see MEDIA DESCRIPTOR)
       17   byte       zero if disk accessed, (default=FF, must rebuild DPB)
       18   dword      far pointer to next drive parameter table; offset
                       is set to FFFFh if last block in chain
       1C   word       current directory cluster number; 0=root
       1E  64bytes     ASCIIZ current working directory


                         Fields differing in DOS 3.x

    Offset Size                Description
       1C   word       starting cluster for free space search
       1E  64bytes     number of free clusters; FFFFh = unknown


                         Fields differing in DOS 4.x

    Offset Size                Description
       11   word       first sector of root directory
       13   dword      far pointer to current disk device header
       17   byte       media descriptor byte (see MEDIA DESCRIPTOR)
       18   byte       zero if disk accessed, (default=FF, must rebuild DPB)
       19   dword      pointer to next drive parameter table; offset
                       is set to FFFFh if last block in chain
       1D   word       starting cluster for free space search
       1F   word       number of free clusters, FFFFh = unknown


       - INT 21,32 which is used to read this data resets accessed byte at
         offset 17h or 18h (depending on DOS version)
       - dword at offset 12h & 13h aren't supported in OS/2 compatability box
       - sector references are DOS logical sectors
       - see   Disk Base Table  BPB  INT 21,1F  INT 21,32

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