LBA Write Sector Problem

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Navic

Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Posts: 16
Location: USA

Navic 15 Mar 2007, 16:52

This code generates a general protection fault at the rep outsw command. My read sector code is identical except obviously the use of EDI instead of ESI and command 20h instead of 30h. The read sector function works just fine, does anyone have a clue as to why this would GPF?
Thanks in advance!

Code:

hd_write_sector:
        cli
        push esi
        mov dx,1F2h
        mov al,1
        out dx,al
        lea esi,[lba]
        lodsw
        ;AL=0-7 (1F3h)  AH=8-15 (1F4h)
        inc dx
        out dx,al
        inc dx
        xchg al,ah
        out dx,al
        lodsw
        ;AL=16-23 (1F5h)  AH=24-27 (1F6h)
        inc dx
        out dx,al
        xchg al,ah
        ;LBA on, Drive 0
        mov ah,0E0h
        add al,ah
        inc dx
        out dx,al
        ;Write with Retry
        inc dx
        mov al,30h
        out dx,al
waitwrite:
        in al,dx
        test al,8
        jz waitwrite
        pop esi
        mov dx,1F0h
        mov ecx,100h
        rep outsw
        sti
        ret

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15 Mar 2007, 16:52

Dex4u

Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 1601
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Dex4u 15 Mar 2007, 18:03

Should you not have some thing like

Code:

  mov     dx,1f6h         ;Drive and head port     mov     al,0a0h         ;Drive 0, head 0     out     dx,al

Code:

        mov edx,[hdbase1]        inc   edx        mov   al,0        out   dx,al

At start of function, also try adding a cld before rep outsw

15 Mar 2007, 18:03

Navic

Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Posts: 16
Location: USA

Navic 18 Mar 2007, 21:53

Right before the 30h command, I set the 1F6h register with this

Code:

;LBA on, Drive 0
mov ah,0E0h
add al,ah
inc dx
out dx,al

0E0h instead of 0A0h because LBA bit 6 must be set to 1 to turn on LBA, 0A0h is for CHS. cld before rep outsw makes no change.

18 Mar 2007, 21:53

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