Re: Using int 13 calls in elks

[Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>]

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?
> 
In elks, as in most unix-like operating systems, there should be no
need for a user program to directly call the bios interrupts. The
partition table, and the rest of the hard drive, can be read/written as
/dev/bd(a-d).


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