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From: wagnere@bladder.UUCP (Eric Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How can I poll a drive?
Summary: Also, what about telling when the door is closed?
Message-ID: <45855611.15768@bladder.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 20:12:54 GMT
References: <342@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: gte
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In article <342@castle.ed.ac.uk>, erck12@castle.ed.ac.uk (Gnome) writes:
> 
> 	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?

Also, how would one go about detecting when the drive door has been
closed, like FASTBAK does?


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