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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users bios parameter block Post 92713 by Esteban on Wednesday 14th of December 2005 06:54:03 AM
Old 12-14-2005
Error Problem

We are working with Minix so we don`t have that command... Maybe i didn`t explain myself right so here i leave my task for collage Smilie . Maybe u can help..

1. Info about the filesystem FAT12 of a floppy.
  • logical bytes per sector
  • Sector per cluster
  • numbers of reserved sectors starting from 0
  • number of FATs
  • number of root dir entries
  • total sectors
  • media descriptor
  • number of sectors per FAT
  • number of logical sectors per FAT
  • number of logical heads
  • number of hidden sectors
  • total sectors
  • physical drive number
  • reserved
  • signature byte for extended boot record
  • serial number
  • label
  • FAT type

I thought that maybe I should include a library and acces to the data of a structure.. Here is an example that i think is on the right way...
 

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