From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c72b93d85d765332 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-10 07:05:12 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Ada and Hardware X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:00:47 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.136.155 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 989503206 62.252.136.155 (Thu, 10 May 2001 15:00:06 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:00:06 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7470 Date: 2001-05-10T15:00:47+01:00 List-Id: > 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