Re: Checking for disk in drive ????

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From: Christopher Lindsey
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:58

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john@fl_gator.b17a.ingr.com (John Eason) writes:

>Hello,

>    Does anyone know how to check to see if a disk is in the floppy drive from code??? I am tired of seeing 'Abort/Retry/Fail' when there's not. Any help would be useful and appreciated.

>Thanks.

	What you can try using is the BIOS disk services beforehand to check
and see if there is a disk in the drive.  INT 13,4 will do this for you, and
return a value greater than zero in register AH if an error took place.
At least this way you don't get the Abort/Retry/Fail message.  Hope this helps!

Christopher Lindsey -- Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Illinois

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