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- From: LCassone@ix.netcom.com (Leith Cassone)
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- Subject: Re: How to detect HD
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:10:36 GMT
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- On Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:05:27 -0800, Dmitri Poujlivyi
- <dmitri@god.bel.alcatel.be> wrote:
-
- >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).
- >
- > Dmitri.
- Along the samew lines. I threw my CD out to M: to make room for
- anything I might add, and partitions.
-
- D:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /L:M /v /e /m:50
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