Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!ptsfa!gilbbs!mc68020 From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: HELP!!...Checking a floppy diskete for blank/non-blank status Message-ID: <1036@gilbbs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 22:07:05 EDT Article-I.D.: gilbbs.1036 Posted: Thu Sep 25 22:07:05 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 20:35:44 EDT References: <806@aluxs.UUCP> Organization: Gil's Place, Santa Rosa CA Lines: 42 Summary: *yawn* In article <806@aluxs.UUCP>, cdl@aluxs.UUCP (MITCHELL) writes: > I posted this question a while back. Does anyone know how to find out > if a floppy diskette is blank/non-blank without using the 'dir' command. > *gee*, I don't know. What sort of floppy diskette? 8", 5 1/4", 3 1/2", 3 1/4", 3"??????????????? > Basically, using the "dir" command to check whether a diskette is blank- > -non/blank is okay if, the diskette contains data. However, if the disk- > -ette is blank you get that "A(bort) R(etry) I(gnore)" error. Depending > on the application you are running you might abort your program. DIR command? Lessee, that command will accomplish something or another on RSTS/E, RT-11, RSX, NOS, CP/M, MS/DOS, and any number of other operating systems I can think of, and no doubt myriads with which I am unfamiliar. > > If anyone knows the answer to this problem please let me know > > Ps. > A source code on how to do this would be more than welcome. Sure. How about telling us what sort of hardware you're running on, and under what operating system? Don't you think that might be slightly helpful? I complain a *LOT* about the arrogance of IBM-PC and clone users, who seem to think the entire world uses and cares about their kind of machine. I complain about non-general questions being posted to net.micro. I am going to have to re-think my position, as this question has to be one of the most general (and meaningless, and unanswerable) questions I have ever seen. -- Disclaimer: Disclaimer? DISCLAIMER!? I don't need no stinking DISCLAIMER!!! tom keller "She's alive, ALIVE!" {ihnp4, dual}!ptsfa!gilbbs!mc68020 (* we may not be big, but we're small! *)