hard drive access

[ninjarider]

i was wondering if anyone had a poject that had direct access to the hard drive that i could take a look at the source for it and get some ideas for my own os.

[Mincho Georgiev]

http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone5/cat469/index.htm

[MichaelW]

Direct access to the hard disk, even using the simplest method, will require complex code. It would be much easier to use the BIOS.

[ninjarider]

ok, i was wrong in my way of phrasing what i was looking for. i just dont have to be going throu dos to access the harddrive. althou it might be interesting to study.

[BogdanOntanu]

SolarOS: www.oby.ro

You can find code to access the ATA HDD directly via ports and an HDD GUI Explorer application for FAT32 filesystem.

But it is not 16 bit... it is 32 bit protected mode code.