Interrupt 41h Hard Disk Parameters (XT,AT,XT2,XT286,PS except ESDI disks)Pointer to first Hard Disk Parameter Block, normally located
in the controller card's ROM. This table may be copied to RAM
and changed, and this pointer revectored to the new table.
note 1) format of parameter table is:
dw cylinders
db heads
dw starting reduced write current cylinder (XT only, 0 for others)
db maximum ECC burst length
db control byte
bits 0-2 drive option (XT only, 0 for others)
bit 3 set if more than 8 heads
bit 4 always 0
bit 5 set if manufacturer's defect map on max cylinder+1
bit 6 disable ECC retries
bit 7 disable access retries
db standard timeout (XT only, 0 for others)
db formatting timeout (XT only, 0 for others)
db timeout for checking drive (XT only, 0 for others)
dw landing zone (AT, PS/2)
db sectors/track (AT, PS/2)
db 0
2) normally vectored to ROM table when system is initialized.
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