INT 13,8 - Get Current Drive Parameters (XT & newer)
AH = 08 DL = drive number (0=A:, 1=2nd floppy, 80h=drive 0, 81h=drive 1) on return: AH = status (see INT 13,STATUS) BL = CMOS drive type 01 - 5¼ 360K 03 - 3½ 720K 02 - 5¼ 1.2Mb 04 - 3½ 1.44Mb CH = cylinders (0-1023 dec. see below) CL = sectors per track (see below) DH = number of sides (0 based) DL = number of drives attached ES:DI = pointer to 11 byte Disk Base Table (DBT) CF = 0 if successful = 1 if error Cylinder and Sectors Per Track Format │F│E│D│C│B│A│9│8│7│6│5│4│3│2│1│0│ CX │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴── sectors per track │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┴────────── high order 2 bits of cylinder count └─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴────────── low order 8 bits of cylinder count - 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) - many good programming references indicate this function is only available on the AT, PS/2 and later systems, but all hard disk systems since the XT have this function available - only the disk number is checked for validity