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From: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to find out what kind of drives are in the system
Keywords: CMOS, drives, BIOS
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Date: 22 Jul 89 02:19:17 GMT
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In article <4014@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) writes:
>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?
>
I meant to findout drive specifications WITHIN a C program, or any
language.  I need to write a program that automaticly detects
and formats disk for general users who do not know what kinda drive
they have.

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       Bill Tsai
University of Delaware CIS		ARPA:  bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU
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