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mkriegel

Joined: 15 Jul 2007
Posts: 19
Location: Germany

mkriegel 15 Jul 2007, 13:38

Hi to all; I'm writing on my own kernel and now I want to load some more sectors from my FD into RAM beginning at segment 50h (Real Mode).

First question:
Do the Int 13h ah=4xh - extensions also work fith Floppy Disks?

I tried both (ah=02h and ah=42h) but it doesn't work.

This is a part of my code:

Retry:
mov ax, 50h
mov es, ax
mov dl, 0
mov ah, 0h
int 13h
mov ah, 2h
mov al, 2 ;sect. count
mov cx, 1 ;also load boot sector
mov dh, 0
mov bx, 0
int 13h
;check for errors
mov ah, 1h
int 13h
cmp al, 0
jne Retry
jmp 50h:200h

Until now I found out the following:
The processor seems to hang in the 'Retry'-Loop because it doesnt react on any command after 'jne Retry'.
If I use the code without such a loop, the code at 50h:200h is not executed.

Thx for helping

MK

15 Jul 2007, 13:38

inflater

Joined: 11 Mar 2007
Posts: 6

inflater 15 Jul 2007, 17:21

Greetings,
Try this:

Code:

push es       ;Save ES
read_again:
xor ax,ax     ;AX=0
mov bx,ax    ;BX=0
mov cx,ax    ;CX=0 
mov dx,ax   ;DX=0
int 13h
jc failure
mov ax,0202h
mov cl,1
mov bx,50h
mov es,bx    ;ES:BX=0050:0200h
mov bx,200h
int 13h
jc read_again
jnc continue
failure:
pop es
mov si,...    ;Display the failure message
...
mov ah,0x4C ;Exit the program or hang or whatever, but
int 21h          ;dont continue
continue:
pop es
mov ax,0050h ;Just in case
mov bx,0200h ;and this too
push ax
push bx
sti
retf

Should work, but it's untested. Give it a try Smile

inflater

15 Jul 2007, 17:21

mkriegel

Joined: 15 Jul 2007
Posts: 19
Location: Germany

mkriegel 15 Jul 2007, 18:37

Thank you, inflater.

I tried your code in my code frame and it didn't work too. Now I fount out, that a wrong value in sp was the prob.

15 Jul 2007, 18:37

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