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Re: Detecting disk change

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:05
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sankey@unixg.ubc.ca (Todd Sankey) writes:


>  Is there any reliable way to detect if the floppy disk has been
>changed short of actually reading it?

Not if you want something that works on *all* machines.  There is one method,
but it will not work on OLD PC's and (I think) the first XT's ....

-frisk

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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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