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From: rst@lucifer.UUCP ( 233)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Finding attached drives
Message-ID: <1032@lucifer.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 91 14:46:45 GMT
Organization: Lucas Powertrain Systems, Electronic Control Group
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I need a method of finding out what hard discs are attached to a PC. In our
environment I need to differentiate between floppies, hard discs, network
discs and RAM discs.

Does anybody have routines in either C or assembler that would let be write
a function that takes a drive letter/number as a parameter and returns what
kind of disc it is?

I'm trying to write a program that creates a zip file of each hard disc on
a PC. The zip files are then backed up onto our mainframe and copied to tape.
Does anybody have a better backup method for PCs networked to a Unix box
using PC-NFS?

				Richard
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Richard Thombs					      Lucas Powertrain Systems,
Mail:  rst@eg.lucasauto.co.uk			      Phoenix Way,
Phone: +44 285 657981 x233			      Cirencester, GL7 1QG,
Fax:   +44 285 658258 (G3)			      England.