Very sketchy for now. This will be updated in time. info for : IDE SERVICES INTERRUPT IDE read/write 512-byte sector al = option user buffer pointer in D AH = number of sectors CB = LBA bytes 3..0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------; FILE SYSTEM DATA STRUCTURE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------; for a directory we have the header first, followed by metadata header 1 sector (512 bytes) metadata 1 sector (512 bytes) HEADER ENTRIES: filename (64) parent dir LBA (2) - to be used for faster backwards navigation... metadata entries: filename (24) attributes (1) |_|_|file_type(3bits)|x|w|r| types: file, directory, character device LBA (2) size (2) day (1) month (1) year (1) packet size = 32 bytes first directory on disk is the root directory '/' FILE ENTRY ATTRIBUTES filename (24) attributes (1) :|0|0|file_type(3bits)|x|w|r| LBA (2) : location of raw data for file entry, or dirID for directory entry size (2) : filesize day (1) month (1) year (1) packet size = 32 bytes : total packet size in bytes |