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From: merrett@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Help: Finding legal drives on system
Message-ID: <3815@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 11:44:48 GMT
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


	Here's a simple problem that I thought (incorrectly it seemed) would
have a simple solution:

	I'm using Turbo-C 2.0 (also TCXL 5.5 if that helps) and I'm trying
to write a simple little routine to scan for the available drives.  I
got a kludge together which incremented up the DRIVE numbers scanning for
getdfree(), checking if it gave an error.  Well, it worked ok but on this
one floppy/one hard drive 386 it naturally asked me to insert floppy in b:.
Is there any way of checking for 'legal' drives on a particular system, in
C, without actually having to read from the drive?  (i.e. I don't want it
plopping that 'insert floppy' message in the middle of my pretty windows)

						thanks in advance

						Doug Merrett
						merrett@ac.dal.ca
						Dalhousie University
						Halifax, N.S.
						Canada
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