>I need to detect whether a zip disk is or is not in its drive, in the server PC, in a W98 LAN. All machines in this LAN are W98.
>
>The following works only on a local machine, but fails miserably if the zip drive is on the server.
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>o = create('scripting.filesystemobject')
> for each dc in o.drives
> ? dc.driveletter, dc.drivetype, dc.isready, dc.sharename
> next
>
>
> ? o.Drives('G').IsReady
>
>( the server PC is mapped in the "terminal" PC as G: )

I don't have a Zip drive here to test it, but maybe you could call .TotalSize or .AvailableSpace. The first should report either 100MB or 250MB, the second may "force" a call to the cartridge, which might result in a trappable error if the cartridge is not installed. Or, you could try writing a small temporary file to the disk and see if you get an error.