Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 41h (FAT32)

Writes data from a buffer to a track on the specified device.

mov     bx, Drive               ;See below
mov     ch, DeviceCat           ;See below
mov     cl, 41h                 ;Write Track on Logical Drive
mov     dx, seg WriteBlock      ;See below
mov     ds, dx
mov     dx, offset WriteBlock   ;ds:dx points to RWBLOCK structure
mov     ax, 440Dh               ;IOCTL for block device
int     21h

jc      error_handler           ;carry set means error

Parameters

Drive

Specifies the drive information is to be written to (0 = default drive, 1 = A, 2 = B, and so on).

DeviceCat

Specifies a FAT16, FAT12 or FAT32 drive.

Value	Description
08h	FAT16 or FAT12 drive. (Will fail on FAT32 drives.)
48h	FAT32, FAT16, or FAT12 drive. This value is supported on Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 and later.

Note: Because this call may be implemented in the device driver, the 48h form of this call may fail on FAT16 or FAT12 media. Therefore, applications making the 48h form of this call must fall back on the 08h form if the 48h call fails.

WriteBlock

Points to an RWBLOCK structure that contains information specifying the sectors to be written to. The rwBuffer member must contain the address of the buffer that contains the data to write to the disk. The RWBLOCK structure has the following form:

RWBLOCK STRUC
    rwSpecFunc      db  0  ;special functions (must be zero)
    rwHead          dw  ?  ;head to read/write
    rwCylinder      dw  ?  ;cylinder to read/write
    rwFirstSector   dw  ?  ;first sector to read/write
    rwSectors       dw  ?  ;number of sectors to read/write
    rwBuffer        dd  ?  ;address of buffer for read/write data
RWBLOCK ENDS

Return Values

If the function is successful, clears the carry flag. Otherwise, sets the carry flag and sets the AX register to one of the following error values.

Remarks

Write Track on Logical Drive returns 0002h (ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) if the specified drive number is invalid.