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Objectives:

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

·         Hard DiskInterrupts

·         Reading Hard Disk Block

·         Invoking Interrupts

·         File Pointer

Problem Statement:

Q: Write C program to perform a block read operation using interrupt 13H/42H. Follow the instructions given below: [Note that we are using DAP data structure which is used by extended int 13H service].

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Instructions:

1)         Include all header files and declare string arrays to input low and high word.

2)         Declare DAP structure and file pointer.

3)      Get low double word from the user, temporarily store it in character array st, and assign this value to lbalod.

4)      Get high double word from the user, temporarily store it in character array st, and assign this value to lbahid.

5)         Finally, generate the interrupt 0x13

6)         Open file through fopen()

7)         Write the read block of hard disk to file.

Note: Your assignment solution will be in this Word file (.doc or .docx)containing code of C. 

Best of Luck!