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Article #5678Re: How to detect network drive?
From: Carl Schelin
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 11:10
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1991 11:10
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In article <1991Apr6.231902.5436@newross.Princeton.EDU>, tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) says:
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>I know how to read the boot sector of a disk. If the first byte is
>0xf8, it's supposed to be a hard disk. But my networked disks (AT&T
>Stargroup) have the same ID. How do I detect if a disk is a network
>disk?
>--
This was information taken from a few previous messages. Someone
posted a routine from a program (called getpath I think) and someone
else mentioned int 44. Since I couldn't get the int86 function to work
nor could I get the getpath function to work, I combined them and
called int 44 from the GetDiskInfo routine. The #define'd statements
are just the codes for ?, n, <space>, and s.
This routine is from Free v1.3 which is coming on c.b.i.p in the next
week or two.
int GetDiskInfo(int drive)
{
union REGS r;
struct SREGS s;
int remote = 0;
r.x.ax = 0x4409;
r.x.bx = 0x0000 + drive;
/* assuming near pointers: */
segread(&s);
s.es = s.ds;
intdosx(&r,&r,&s);
remote = UNKNOWN;
if (r.x.dx == 0x1756) remote = NETWORK;
if (r.x.dx == 0x0840) remote = LOCAL;
if (r.x.dx == 0x8840) remote = SUBST;
return remote;
}
Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!news From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: How to detect network drive? Message-ID: <1991Apr9.111047.24054@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 11:10:47 GMT References: <1991Apr6.231902.5436@newross.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab Lines: 40