Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!cbnewsm!mds1
From: mds1@cbnewsm.att.com (marc.d.sayre)
Subject: How to determine what type of drive?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 14:53:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.145358.14577@cbnewsm.att.com>
Keywords: bios,dos drive
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I have been reading a lot of books about dos bios etc and know
about bios calls and dos calls. I know how to get information of the
boot block fat table etc etc. But how in the hell do you determine
without having a floppy in your drive, what type of drive you are dealing
with?? Usually you can read this of the floppy disk if it already has been
formatted.

I 've been wanting to know this for a while and therefor are posting this to
all ms-dos wizzards out there!!!!


Erick Otto
ihlpb!carod
hvlpa!eotto
ihlpb!hvmpa!eotto

Thanks a bunch guys and galls.