How-to access floppy sectors?

[theusch@centurytel.net (Theusch Family)]

I would like some help on reading from and writing to the floppy drive
on a sector-by-sector level, instead of a file-system level.  I am
hoping to implement this into Applesoft BASIC.  Will this require
extensive PEEKs and POKEs?  If so, what might be the machine code
routine to access the drive, and how could Applesoft manipulate it?

{{  I am only a novice Applesoft programmer, wishing to do "big"
things.  I know quite nothing about machine code or assembly language.
My two main Apple II projects include --

	1. Use a Windows PC running my custom Visual Basic or MS-DOS
program to serve as a sort of disk server, holding disk images of all
of my Apple software.  When I choose a program on the "disk server" to
use on my Apple, an ADT-type operation transfers those program disk
images to temporary Apple disks.  The chosen program is shelled out or
booted on the Apple.  After I am done with it, and ADT-type operation
transfers the modified disks back to the "disk server" and my VB or
DOS program files them away for later use.
	2. Use a Windows PC running my custom Visual Basic application
as an "Internet relay" for an Apple.  A telecom program on the Apple
makes a null-modem connection to a PC.  Sending certain commands to
the PC, the PC downloads HTML or text files at a specified URL off the
Internet, which are parsed into plain text and sent to the Apple
telecom program.  If a binary file is requested, it is downloaded onto
the PC for future manipulation.  

larva_jt1@yahoo.com }}