Reading Floppies.

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From: Chris Austin
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 12:57

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In modula-2 is there any way that you can determine whether a floppy drive
currently contains a disk and whether it is correctly formatted,  (i.e.
whether the drive is readable), without getting the DOS abort, retry or
ignore message.  I would like this to work with CD's, IOMEGA ZipDrives,
etc... as well.  I have looked through a list of interrupts, but am unable
to find one to do this.  I am able to tell whether the drive exists, by
using the setdrive & getdrive interrupts.

Any help would be appreciated.

Chris

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From: zcaccau@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Chris Austin)
Subject: Reading Floppies.
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:57:21 GMT
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