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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: FDHD & MsDos
Message-ID: <48237@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 91 02:31:26 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes:
>I'd like to be able to check if there is an MSDOS disk inserted in an FDHD.
>If I could read tracks from an MSDos disk, it would even be better.
>Can this be done without writing my own driver ? If not,are there any
>public domain source codes or compiled libraries available anywhere ?

If you have an FDHD, then you can read MS-DOS disks just by calling the
floppy disk driver.  You just need to know where the relevant blocks live
on the disk...

steve

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