Originally published: 2006-04-26 09:45:27
Last updated: 2006-04-26 09:45:27
Author: Stephen Chappell

The class presented bellow (Disk Abstraction Layer 1) is designed to provide a very easy interface to work with secondary memory where IO errors may occur and data is worked with in blocks. DAL1 allows access to a hard drive (via its driver) so that it can be accessed in a file-like way. IO errors are also taken care of at this level (which can cause problems at extremely high probabilities of failure.