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- From: Dmitri Poujlivyi <dmitri@god.bel.alcatel.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.programming,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: How to detect HD
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:05:27 -0800
- Organization: Alcatel/Bell
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- Craig Lovegren wrote:
- [big snip]
- > All kidding aside, why not check the multi-plexer. Ask it to return the
- > number of CD-ROM drives installed. If it returns more than zero then it
- > should tell you what the name of the first drive is. For example, if I
- > had 2 hard-drives and at least one CD drive it would tell you, the first
- > CD is E:... this would mean that the last writeable drive would be E - 1
- > or D:... you think? [again snip]
-
- Hi!
-
- Once upon a time I had 1HD splitted into 2 partitions and CD on Z: drive.
- Try to guess ( using method above) how many HD I had?
- Maybe Ralf Brown interrupt list will help?(Just guess).
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- Dmitri.
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