BIOS Disk Drive Installed Data (Columbia PCs only) [0040:0069]

(not valid on most clone computers)

Bits Description

---- ------------------------------------------------

0 0 8 inch external floppy drives

1 5-1/4 external floppy drives

1-3 highest drive address which Int 13 will accept

(since the floppy drives are assigned 0-3, subtract 3

to obtain the number of hard disks installed)

4,5 # of hard disks connected to expansion controller

6,7 # of hard disks on motherboard controller

(if bit 6 or 7 = 1, no A: floppy is present and

the maximum number of floppies from Int 11 is 3)