i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
looking forward to replies.
really appreciate any suggestion.
any idea on how to timeout the read statement for ksh?
for bash u can use read -t option
-t timeout
Cause read to time out and return failure if a complete
line of input is not read within timeout seconds. This
option has ... (2 Replies)
Is there a way to determine the number of available spare sectors on a disk ? as it may be useful for notifying a user to take a backup of the disk before it runs into a medium error. (6 Replies)
hello every one ,
this is my first participation in the forum , I hope it'll be a good start
within a script I would like to put some code to read i\p from standard i\p using read command if it reads Y it will terminate the script if it reads N it will continue execution , if no i\p is... (2 Replies)
I found a document: Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools
My hard drive is Maxtor:
root]# fdisk -lu /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3f4e3f4d
... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it... (23 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
i am trying to get sectors,cylinders,track..etc information of all present disks out of solaris machine using prtvtoc command .
Output of ptrvtoc command is as below :
bash-3.2# prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
* /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector... (2 Replies)
I saw several thread for this issue but none addresses my issue.
I have tried read -t but the result is read bad options
My requirement is
1. Ask for input
2. If input = y or no input in 60 seconds
then continue processing
else
exit
fi
Kindly consider this urgent. (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a EFI disk and it is use in zfs pool.
partition> p
Volume: rpool
Current partition table (original):
Total disk sectors available: 1172107117 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
0 usr wm ... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: javanoob
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
qc2movie
qc2movie(1) BSD General Commands Manual qc2movie(1)NAME
qc2movie -- Quartz Composer export tool
SYNOPSIS
qc2movie inCompositionPath|repositoryCompositionIdentifier outMoviePath width height duration [--parameterKey1 value1 ...]
DESCRIPTION
qc2movie is a tool that exports a Quartz Composer composition into a QuickTime movie by adding a track containing this composition. It is the
command line equivalent of exporting a composition for the Quartz Composer application to a QuickTime movie.
OPTIONS
inCompositionPath|repositoryCompositionIdentifier
specifies which composition you want to export. Ar inCompositionPath is the path to the composition. Ar reposito-
ryCompositionIdentifier is the identifier of a composition which lies in the Quartz Composer Repository.
outMoviePath specifies movie file path to which the composition will be exported to
width defines the width of the export movie
height defines the height of the export movie
duration defines the length of the export movie
[--parameterKey1 value1 ...]
passes composition specific parameters through the command line tool to the composition
EXAMPLES -To create a 10 second QuickTime movie containing a Quartz Composer track of the Particle System composition:
qc2movie "/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer Compositions/Particle Systems/Particle System.qtz" ~/example.mov 640 480 10
-To merge two video tracks (30s each) together using an image transition protocol abiding composition (Swing for example) in the Quartz
Composer Repository (using its identifier: /swing):
qc2movie /swing ~/merged-example.mov 640 480 60 --inputMoviePath1 ~/firstVideo.mov --inputMoviePath2 ~/secondVideo.mov --duration 2
-To apply an image filter protocol abiding composition to the video track of a movie:
qc2movie /colorpencil ~/effect-example.mov 640 480 30 --input ~/Video.mov
SEE ALSO pcastaction(1)Mac OS July 9 2007 Mac OS