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From: jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Help: Finding legal drives on system
Message-ID: <8795@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 01:47:44 GMT
References: <3815@ac.dal.ca>
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
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In article <3815@ac.dal.ca> merrett@ac.dal.ca writes:
>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)

About the only way to do it is to check the biosequip word for number of
floppies.  I don't know it's memory address at the moment, but TC has a
function to find it for you, then you do a little bit manipulation to do the
rest.
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