> From: Ian Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 07:27:00PM -0800, Simon Cooke wrote: >> At the moment, 99% of current PC's won't let you read sector 10. It's a >> pain. > >If the "PC" won't let you read sector 10 then how is anyone supposed to >write a version of samdisk that works?
It's the BIOS that stops the reading of sector 10. IIRC, there's a few BIOS extending TSRs out there that DO allow the PC to read/write to sector 10 and, indeed, use 800K/1600K MS-DOS formatted disks. I know.. I've used one quite successfully under a DOS/Win311 environment... But, not tried with SAMDSK/SAMDISK though... I've no idea if they work under NT/Win95/Win98, though... Jut.
