9 int 15h removable media eject, Ept (see clause 9) – Western Digital T13/2132-D User Manual

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T13/2132-D Revision 3

June 23, 2010

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Working Draft Enhanced Disk Drive - 4 (EDD-4)

9 INT 15h Removable Media Eject

This function shall be called by the BIOS in response to a software request (INT 13h, AH=46h, Eject Device) to
eject media from a removable media device.

A user may press an eject button or use a software command to request that a particular media be ejected. By
default the INT 15h handler returns with ejection accepted status. A disk cache program may replace this INT 15
call and return acceptance or rejection based on the state of its buffers for this disk. This function may also be
used by operating system software as a media change request.

Entry

AH 52h

DL BIOS device number

Exit

Carry Clear Function completed without error

AH Shall be cleared to zero. ejection may proceed

Carry Set Function completed with an error

AH Shall be set to the error code, B1h or B3h, ejection is rejected

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