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drive info

The ATA disk driver provides a drive status function for retrieving status information from the drive. The drive info status function returns the same type of information that disk drivers are required to return for the status function, as described in the chapter "Device Manager" in Inside Macintosh: Devices.


Parameter block

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csCode

A value of 8.
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ioVRefNum

The logical drive number.
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csParam[ ]

The csParam field contains status information about the internal ATA disk drive.
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ioResult

See result codes.
RESULT CODES

noErr

0 Successful completion, no error occurred

nsDrvErr

-56 The specified logical drive number does not exist

© 1999 Apple Computer, Inc. — (Last Updated 30 Oct 97)

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