From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joseph D. Wagner" Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: BiosDiskIO Library Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:04:05 -0500 Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <000201c27b6e$a056fe70$d92f3a41@joe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Assembly Programming List BiosDiskIO is a library of Int 13h PC BIOS Disk Operations. While DMA (Direct Memory Access) produces faster I/O, the diskette and hard disk services offered by the BIOS provide a backward compatibility for older systems. Additionally, BIOS Disk Operations also provide a quick-and-dirty way to access low-level disk services without the hassle of a fully-featured DMA system when speed isn't a consideration (such as early stages of file system development). Hence, the purpose of the BiosDiskIO Library is two-fold: first, to provide backward compatibility for older systems, and second, to provide quick-and-dirty access to low-level disk services, especially for file system developers and forensic analysts. Check it out at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/biosdiskiolib ----------------------------------- Current Release: Version 0.12 THIS RELEASE HAS NOT AT ALL BEEN TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! It should work in theory, but then again, so should Communism. Be particularly careful of anything that I've explicitly labeled as dangerous and anything that has to do with the Segment Offset. Above all, let me know what works and doesn't work. Software and development testers would be most helpful at this point in the project.