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Re: Unmount drive on Win9x (Int 21h API ???)

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From: Helmut Giese
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:00
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:23:36 -0700, "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)"
<gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Helmut Giese" <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote in message
>news:3f32b61b.5680168@forums.borland.com...
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>> I found a (broken) link to using some old Int 21h functions instead.
>
>What was the link exactly?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/hardware/devio_89ph.asp
(all on one line)
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>> - how to access this Int 21h interface
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>Use DeviceIoControl() as well.  The trick is, however, that you cannot open
>the hardware device directly like you can under NT/2K/XP, so you have to
>access it indirectly using the VWIN32.VXD driver under Win9x/Me instead:
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>    Calling DeviceIoControl on Windows Me/98/95
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/devio/base/calling_deviceiocontrol_o
>n_windows_95_98_me.asp
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>> - (more specifically) on unmounting a device ?
>
>    Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 49h
>    Ejects the specified media.
>    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9x/fat32_7n3k.asp
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>You can find all of the Int21h controls here:
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>    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/win9x/fat32_70z4.asp
Thanks for the pointers
Helmut Giese
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