CS609 Assignment No. 03 Solution and Discussion

[zaasmi]

Semester: Spring 2019
CS609: System Programming
Graded
Assignment No. 03
Total Marks: 20

Due Date: July 16, 2019

Instructions:

Please read the following instructions carefully before submitting assignment. It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit if:

♣ The assignment is submitted after due date.
♣ The submitted assignment does not open or file is corrupt.
♣ You have not followed steps described in Detailed Instructions of the problem statement.
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Note: You have to upload only .doc or .docx file. Assignment in any other format (extension) will not be accepted and will be awarded with zero marks.

Objectives:

The objective of this assignment is to provide hands-on experience of System Programming concepts including:

• Hard Disk interrupts
• Hard Disk data reading
• Hard Disk BioDisk() function

For any assignment related query, contact at [email protected]

Problem Statement:

Q: Write a program which reads two physically addressed blocks from disk using biosdisk() function.
Instructions:
• Declare arrays to handle head, sector and track numbers to read from hard disk.
unsigned char headno[10];
unsigned char secno[10];
unsigned char trackno[10];
• Similarly declare a buffer of 1024 char to store data 2 blocks data etc.
• unsigned char buf[1024];
• Use printf to print message of entering head no. i.e printf("Head ");
• Use gets function to get head no. from user i.e gets(headno);
• Use puts function to put headno in array of headno
• Use biodisk function to read two blocks i.e
biosdisk(2,0x80,atoi(headno),atoi(trackno),atoi(secno),2,buf) ;
• Similarly get and put sector and track numbers.
• Show error message in case of failure of biodisk() function.

Note: Your assignment file should be a single Word file (.doc or .docx) containing code only.

Best of Luck!

[cyberian]

@moaaz
Another Idea solution

#include <bios.h>

#include <dos.h>

FILE *fp;

unsigned char buf[1024];

unsigned char st[60];

unsigned char headno[10];

unsigned char secno[10];

unsigned char trackno[10];

void main (void)

{

int i;

for (i=0; i<1024; i++)

buf[i]=0;

gets(st);

fp=fopeon(st,”wb”);

printf(“Head”);

gets(headno);

puts(headno);

printf(“/nsector ”);

gets(secno);

puts(secno);

printf(“/ntrack ”);

gets(trackno);

puts(trackno);

i = biosdisk(2, 0x80, atoi(headno), atoi(trackno), atoi(trackno), 2,buf);

}

if(*(((char *)(&i))+1)= =0)

{

fwrite(buf,2,1024,fp);

fclose(fp);

}

else

{

printf(“Cannot Read Error# = %x” i);

}

[moaaz]

Idea Solution

#include #include FILE *fp; 
unsigned char buf[1024]; 
unsigned char st[60];
unsigned char headno[10]; 
unsigned char secno[10];
unsigned char trackno[10]; 
void main (void) {
int i ;
for (i=0;i<1024;i++)
buf[i]=0;
gets(st); 
fp=fopen(st,"wb"); 
printf("Head "); 
gets(headno); 
puts (headno);
i = biosdisk(2,0x80,atoi(headno), atoi(trackno),atoi(secno),2,buf) ; 
if (*(((char *)(&i))+1)==0) { 
fwrite(buf,2,1024,fp); fclose(fp);
} 
else printf("Cannot Read Error# = %x",i); 
}

[cyberian]

@Anaya-Ali