INT 41 - FIXED DISK  PARAMETERS  (XT,AT,XT2,XT286,PS  except ESDI disks)   

        WORD   cylinders
        BYTE   heads
        WORD   starting reduced write current cylinder
               (XT only, 0 for others)
        WORD   starting write pre-comp cylinder
        BYTE   maximum ECC burst length
        BYTE   control byte
Control Byte
Bit Dec Hex  Description
0 1 01h  drive option (XT only, 0 for others)
1 2 02h
2 4 04h
3 8 08h  set if more than 8 heads
4 16 10h  always 0
5 32 20h  set if manufacturer's defect map on max cylinder+1
6 64 40h  disable ECC retries
7 128 80h  disable access retries
        BYTE   standard timeout (XT only, 0 for others)

        BYTE   formatting timeout (XT only, 0 for others)
        BYTE   timeout for checking drive (XT only, 0 for others)
        WORD   landing zone (AT/PS2)
        BYTE   sectors/track (AT/PS2)
        BYTE   0


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