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From: erck12@castle.ed.ac.uk (Gnome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How can I poll a drive?
Message-ID: <342@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Sep 89 16:35:04 GMT
Reply-To: erck12@castle.ed.ac.uk (Gnome)
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	Here is one for the hackers among you! I want to poll a given (i.e.
not necasarily physical) drive, given a drive letter supplied by the user. I
want to find out if it is present, and functional without generating any DOS
"retry, abort or ..." or "insert diskette for drive X" type messages. I am
working in MSC 5.1. How would I go about it?

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