HELP!!...Checking a floppy diskete for blank/non-blank status

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Author: MITCHELL
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1986 13:50

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I posted this question a while back.  Does anyone know how to find out
if a floppy diskette is blank/non-blank without using the 'dir' command.

Basically, using the "dir" command to check whether a diskette is blank-
-non/blank is okay if, the diskette contains data.  However, if the disk-
-ette is blank you get that "A(bort) R(etry) I(gnore)" error.  Depending
on the application you are running you might abort your program.

If anyone knows the answer to this problem please let me know

Ps.
A source code on how to do this would be more than welcome.

                     Thanks.
Derrick Mitchell
1247 Cedar Crest Blvd.
Allentown PA 18103
(215)-770-3945

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