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From: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How to find out what kind of drives are in the system
Summary: CMOS??
Keywords: CMOS, drives, BIOS
Message-ID: <4014@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 19 Jul 89 19:16:38 GMT
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Is there anyway to findout what kind of floppy drives (ie, 1.2meg,
360k, 1.44, 720. etc), or even how many sectors, without actually
access the drive?  There is a routine in TC *finddfree* that
reports the total sectors in a *disk*, I need one that reports
what KIND.  After hours of thinking, I thought that the only place
where we can find it is in CMOS, and reading IBM BIOS listing didn't
really helping me any.  Help??

bill@vax1.udel.edu

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       Bill Tsai
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