Thanks for your help with this xitrum. Unfortunately with this first bit which you told me was incorrectly referenced, when I remove the * from in front of the pointers i receive the error "Error:...

Hi xitrum,
I decided to go down a different route using malloc to allocate it a section of memory of 512 or multiples of depending on how many sectors i wanted to read and then allocating this...

Hi All,
I am currently trying to write a program that can read individual sectors on a floppy disk using C. I am building the program to run in a 16-bit DOS environment using the Digital Mars...

Many thanks for your help Salem

You are suggesting using the POSIX API's as much as possible but as far as i know these aren't supported within the MinGW Compiler for windows, would it be preferable to change the compiler i have to...

Sorry Salem but the system i need to build on is on multiple OS's but so far i have worked on Linux and Windows XP using a MinGW C compiler.
Thanks
Dinklebaga

Hi All,
I am researching writing a program in C that will allow me to control the read/write on a FDD and then to move onto HDD's. I have been given some code that will allow me to do this by one of...