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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to determine what type of drive?
Keywords: bios,dos drive
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.192952.1497@uwasa.fi>
Date: 29 Nov 90 19:29:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov29.145358.14577@cbnewsm.att.com>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Nov29.145358.14577@cbnewsm.att.com> mds1@cbnewsm.att.com (marc.d.sayre) writes:
>
>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.

If you program in Turbo Pascal you might find the /pc/ts/tspas22.arc
Turbo Pascal units collection of use in your problem.

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