bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) (07/20/89)
Is there anyway to findout what kind of floppy drives (ie, 1.2meg,
360k, 1.44, 720. etc), or even how many sectors, without actually
access the drive? There is a routine in TC *finddfree* that
reports the total sectors in a *disk*, I need one that reports
what KIND. After hours of thinking, I thought that the only place
where we can find it is in CMOS, and reading IBM BIOS listing didn't
really helping me any. Help??
bill@vax1.udel.edu
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Bill Tsai
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(302) 738-1716 " The computer doesn't hate everybody - just you... "bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) (07/22/89)
In article <4014@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) writes: >Is there anyway to findout what kind of floppy drives (ie, 1.2meg, >360k, 1.44, 720. etc), or even how many sectors, without actually >access the drive? > I meant to findout drive specifications WITHIN a C program, or any language. I need to write a program that automaticly detects and formats disk for general users who do not know what kinda drive they have. -- Bill Tsai University of Delaware CIS ARPA: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (302) 738-1716 " The computer doesn't hate everybody - just you... "