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- From: lb00197@Corlac (David Porco)
- Subject: Re: HELP: How does one identify a drive as a Novell network drive?
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- References: <2TP1wB4w165w@cibbs.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:21:21 GMT
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- In article <2TP1wB4w165w@cibbs.UUCP> root@cibbs.UUCP writes:
-
- >I am attempting to determine how to look at say teh DOS media descriptor for a
- >drive in memory to determine if this is a network drive. I've posted about this
- >before and got no response.
-
- >Anyone what to look for? I have used my resources regarding DOS programming and
- >they never mention network drives.
-
- >Someone in here once posted that they were able to make a change to the media
- >descriptor to make DOS this that a network drive was a hard drive. Obvoisuly
- >this is possible, but what would information would one look for determining if
- >a drive was on the network, or local?
-
- According to DOS PROGRAMMING by Kris Jamsa, you can use Int 21H function
- 4409H to determine if the drive, whose number is specified in BL is local
- or remote(network). If the function is successful, it clears the carry flag
- and assigns bit values to DX. If bit 12 is 0 the drive is local, if bit 12
- is 1 then the drive is remote(network).
-
- >Any informaion regarding this would be appreciated.
- >Mark
-
- Hope this helps.
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