DOS 3.1/3.2 help...

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From: dvadura
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1986 20:20

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Hi there, does anyone out there in net land know how you can find out from
DOS what the names of physical drives active in the system are?  I haven't
found a DOS call for it, at least not obviously documented in the technical
reference manual.  (ie. what I want to know is how I can find out that
drives a, b, and d exist and are real disks in the system or in the case
of a system with two partitions c and d on a hard disk,
and one floppy drive called a, I should get the names a, c, and d.)

NOTE:  By names I don't mean I want a, c, and d, it is sufficient to get
       a bit string with bits set for the drives that are actually attached.

It would be even nicer if I can get such info in a portable way.

-thanks in advance
-dennis
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Dennis Vadura, Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo

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