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DOS Drive Info Block (DDIB)
51h bytes per drive (58h bytes for DOS 4.0), starting with A: ...
Offset Size Contens
------------------------------------------------------------------
00-43 Bytes Current path as ASCIIZ, starting with 'x:\'
44 Byte Drive-flags
11xx xxxx 00: Not a valid entry
01: Physical drive
10: Network drive
11: Invalid
xx1x xxxx 1=Drive is JOIN'ed
xxx1 xxxx 1=Subst drive
45-48 DWord Pointer to DOS Drive Parameter Block (DDPB) for
this drive
49-4A Word Starting cluster of current dir? FFFFh if never
accessed.
4B-4E Unknown (-1 always)
4F-50 Word Minimal path len. Used by subst (always 2 if drive
isn't substituted). Example:
SUBST D: C:\ (2)
SUBST E: C:\ARC (6)
SUBST F: C:\ARC\TEST (11)
Note: In DOS 4.0, the DDIB contains 7 additional bytes, which
always is zero (at on my machine ...)
See Also:
List of lists
DDPB
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