Date   : Fri, 03 Nov 1989 21:20:32 GMT
From   : crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen@uunet.uu.net (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Subject: on the other side of the floppy ...

In article <2625@gandalf.UUCP>, edlee@gandalf.UUCP (Ed Lee) writes:

|  He knows where the disk controller is and he can do whatever he wants to
|  either sides of the floppy by writing to it directly and bypassing BDOS.
|  What he wants to know is how to do it via a BDOS call; or how to set it up
|  such that the BDOS call will read side 1 of the disk.

  I have never heard of anything like this... a BIOS which understands
double sided disks at all uses both sides of the disk all the time. One
logical track goes on one side, one on the other. I *did* have a BIOS
which treated the two sides as separate drives (C: and D:) but that was
a BIOS I wrote myself from scratch and which had a special purpose.
-- 
bill davidsen  (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon