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What Type of Floppy Drive Is It
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00059326
Message ID:
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>On this question I don't even know where to start.
>I can call GetDriveType in win32api to find out
>what type of Drive I have - no problem. But when
>I find out it is a Floppy Disk I want to know how
>to find out what size the drive is whether or not a
>disk is in place. Note, I already have seen the
>DrivInf class in the download section. But this
>question is not going to be resolved by executing
>someone else's procedure file. I am trying to gain
>personal expereince in how to gain access to this
>kind of hardware data in Win95 and WinNT. So Where
>do I start? If there's a book - What's the title?
>If there is existing non-proprietary code and/or
>explanations of how it works, Where do I get it?
>Thanks ahead of time.

The only way I know to get this information is via a ROM BIOS interrupt call (Int 13H Function 08H Get Drive Parameters). Unfortunately, you'd have to use C to be able (or a library) in order to call the function.

George
George

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