Initialize the disk system using the interrupt 13H (function 00h) where regs.h.ah = 0x00 points to the function 00 H and regs.h.dl = 0x00 is used for a: floppy. And int86(0x13, ®s, ®s) invokes MS-DOS interrupt service INT 13 H.
As we are going to read all the information of the surface of disk, The parameters of _bios_disk will be as follows:
Parameter
What it means
dinfo.drive = 0x00
It indicates the drive 0 that is floppy disk drive (a:)
dinfo.head = head
It points to head number 0 and 1 as floppy has two sides(two heads)
dinfo.track = track
It points to track 0 to 79 as there are 80 tracks on each side of floppy.
dinfo.sector = sector
It points to sector 1 to 18 as there are 18 sectors in each track.
dinfo.sector = 1
Number of sectors to consider for read operation = 1
dinfo.buffer = dbuf
Data buffer for the operation
_bios_disk(_DISK_READ, &dinfo) reads the data from the physical surface of floppy disk from the sector specified by dinfo.
The status returned is stored in result that is used to display the message for successful operation or to display an error message on the screen if any error occurs.
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