Re: Ada and Hardware

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

> This is a system-programming question, not an Ada question. An Ada programmer
> won't accomplish this much differently than a C programmer. You'd probably
have
> better luck asking your question in a Windows programming newsgroup.
>
> Now if you get an answer, but don't know how to translate it to Ada, that's
what
> we're here for.

I know how to do it in C.  Use the biosdisk function!  Which is incredibly
unsafe but is the only way i know of doing this.  I don't know how to do it in
Ada without binding to C, but i want to avoid this if i can.

I don't see how it isn't an Ada question.  Ada supports systems programming, and
all i want to really is to write/read blocks from a floppy not write a floppy
driver (i don't need to do this yet, but i will soon.  in any event i have
decent info on this and i need a PMode OS first.)

Chris Campbell