INT 13,4 - Verify Disk Sectors
AH = 04 AL = number of sectors to verify (1-128 dec.) CH = track/cylinder number (0-1023 dec., see below) CL = sector number (1-17 dec.) DH = head number (0-15 dec.) DL = drive number (0=A:, 1=2nd floppy, 80h=drive 0, 81h=drive 1) ES:BX = pointer to buffer on return: AH = status (see INT 13,STATUS) AL = number of sectors verified CF = 0 if successful = 1 if error - BIOS disk reads should be retried at least three times and the controller should be reset upon error detection - causes controller to calculate the CRC of the disk data and compare it against the CRC stored in the sector header - BIOS before 11/15/85 required ES:BX point to a valid buffer that doesn't cross DMA boundaries. More recent BIOS versions actually ignore the buffer and the DMA boundary requirement - use this function to check for valid formatted diskette in a the specified drive and for drive ready for read - only the disk number is checked for validity - the parameters in CX change depending on the number of cylinders; the track/cylinder number is a 10 bit value taken from the 2 high order bits of CL and the 8 bits in CH (low order 8 bits of track): │F│E│D│C│B│A│9│8│7│6│5-0│ CX │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └───── sector number │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┴─────── high order 2 bits of track/cylinder └─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴────────── low order 8 bits of track/cyl number - see DETECTING