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In article <2TP1wB4w165w@cibbs.UUCP> root@cibbs.UUCP writes:
>I am attempting to determine how to look at say teh DOS media descriptor for a
>drive in memory to determine if this is a network drive. I've posted about this
>before and got no response.
>
>Anyone what to look for? I have used my resources regarding DOS programming and
>they never mention network drives.
>
>Someone in here once posted that they were able to make a change to the media
>descriptor to make DOS this that a network drive was a hard drive. Obvoisuly
>this is possible, but what would information would one look for determining if
>a drive was on the network, or local?
>
>Any informaion regarding this would be appreciated.
>Mark
>
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Mark,

Here is a code snippet from Al Stevens' DFlat library that might help.

 /* ---- test for network or RAM disk ---- */
 regs.x.ax = 0x4409;     /* IOCTL func 9 */
 regs.h.bl = dr+1;
 int86(DOS, &regs, &regs);
 if (!regs.x.cflag)    {
     if (regs.x.dx & 0x1000)
         strcat(drname, " (Network)");
     else if (regs.x.dx == 0x0800)
         strcat(drname, " (RAMdisk)");
 }

Now, how do you know it's a Novell network drive :
Check if you'se running on top of a Novell network.

If you're sure that you're running Netware, here's an alternate method:

mov ax, e900
mov dx, drivenum ; a: = 0 ...
int 21

on return ah has the drive flags:
bit 0: perm. handle
bit 1: temp handle (both mean NetWare drives)
bit 7: local drive

Hope this helps,
Janos
jhaide@novell.com

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