Re: Using int 13 calls in elks

["Gábor Lénárt" <lgb@lgb.hu>]

Hi,

I don't even understand this type of logic. Why do you want to use int 13h?
It's a stone aged service from a time, when there was the simply "OS" named
DOS which was "layered" on BIOS. But NOW everybody should avoid using BIOS
or such. IMHO. Of course every system has got its own method you should use,
like on UNIX you should use the UNIX way. Use BIOS if you write a DOS
application. But according your mail, you want to PORT a something, so you
should use the schemantic of the target system, and not overhacked solution
just for creating a very ugly, unstable and unmaintainable soluton. IMHO
again.

Hope, my oppionion helped and you don't treat my mail as a flame starter one ...

- Gábor

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:51:58PM -0800, Jason Dictos wrote:
> Hello,
>   
>    I have some code to port from an MSDOS based application who's main goal
> was to write partition data to a bios addressable disk. Currently under
> linux/bsd, I haven't found any way to call int 13 style calls from within
> the protected mode operating system, however I hear that elks has some bios
> disk drivers. Basically our goal with this application is to be able to
> write/read from bios addressable disks in a multi threaded environment.
> 
> Can elks help me out here?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Jason
> 
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