Xref: utzoo alt.msdos.programmer:1410 comp.lang.pascal:3255 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!ra!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Checking Disk Drives Message-ID: <1990Mar22.204418.9629@uwasa.fi> Date: 22 Mar 90 20:44:18 GMT References: <1990Mar22.175900.10395@csusac.csus.edu> Distribution: alt Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 17 In article <1990Mar22.175900.10395@csusac.csus.edu> porterd@cssexb.csus.edu (darren porter) writes: > > Hi. I was wondering if anybody could help me with a problem. I want > to test my PC for the available disk drives it has. For instance, how > does a program know to give you the choice between drives A: & C:, but > not B: if there is no second floppy? You know, for changing drives in > a program. Please help. I have looked in the BIOS routines, but could > not find anything. If you use Turbo Pascal, there are routines for these kind of tasks in the (/pc/ts/)tspas18.arc tpu 4.0/5.0/5.5 collection. Available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi at Vaasa, Finland. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun