FDC programming simple questions

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ManOfSteel

FDC programming simple questions

Post by ManOfSteel »

Hello,
I have some simple questions concerning the FDC (with DMA) programming.
Do I necessarily need to read the 7 status bytes from data port 0x3f5 for the good completion of the FDC operation.
What are these status bytes? Are they: st0, st1, st2, cylinder, head, sector, sector size?
When I send a command to the 0x3f5 data port, what is the 'maximum sector' all about?
What is 'skip deleted data address marks'?
Thank you in advance.
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