Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!trgauchat
From: trgauchat@rose.waterloo.edu (Terry Gauchat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems finding out how many drives a system has.
Keywords: MSDOS, BUGS
Message-ID: <13987@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 20 May 89 16:32:54 GMT
References: <188@stpl.UUCP>
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In article <188@stpl.UUCP> peterc@stpl.UUCP (Peter CAMILLERI) writes:
>Hello Netland!
>
>   2) Set the Default Drive to the number obtained above using
>      DOS FN 14, which as a side effect returns the number of Drives!
>
>Neat Huh? Too bad it does'nt work, { In spite of the fact that the manual
>says it should :-} It always returns 5 (Five) as the number of drives
>despite the fact that I have only 3 (Three) A & B are floppies, and C
>a hard disk. { I am running Compaq DOS 3.2 if it matters. } 

I believe that you are getting "5" because the environment variable
LASTDRIVE is set to "e" (I believe this is the default).

Try putting  LASTDRIVE=C in your CONFIG.SYS .

I know this isn't the best solution, but it may explain the bug.

...Terry
MicroCosmic Computer Services