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Re: Detecting media insertion/removal

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From: Mike Wynne
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:15
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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" wrote...
> You said earlier that the reader adds 4 new drive letters to your system.
> Assuming that you have a C drive for the hard drive, and maybe D for a
> CD/DVD drive, then the reader would be adding drives E-H.  But in your
> bitmask, you are asking for device events for drives A-D instead.  So your
> reader drives will never report the requested events.  You need to adjust
> your bitmask accordingly.

My original mask was 0xffff to make sure I had every drive covered, but 
since the RegisterDeviceNotification() fails with invalid data, I reduced it 
to cover drives I absolutely knew existed (Just in case this was the reason 
it was failing).  It still failed with invalid data...

MikeW
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