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From: alawlor@dit.ie (Aengus Lawlor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: can you tell if a logical drive is a ramdisk
Message-ID: <7442.261cbd19@dit.ie>
Date: 6 Apr 90 16:00:24 GMT
References: <1990Mar31.034515.7622@rducky.uucp>
Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology
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In article <1990Mar31.034515.7622@rducky.uucp>, jrp@rducky.uucp (JIM PICKERING) writes:
> I am writing an application that needs to determine is a logical drive
> (E for example) is a ramdisk.  Is there any way?  Perhaps there is some
> information in the BPD obtained through an ioctl() call?
Can you get the date associated with the label on the drive?
If it's todays date, it's probably a ram drive.

(Not perfect, but reasonably do-able)
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Aengus Lawlor    Dept of Computer Science.           Time flies like an arrow,
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