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From:	malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor)
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Subject:	Re: Detecting drives
Date:	Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:32:01 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:


>where DJGPP can run.  (You could think that DOS calls are also a solution,
>but some DPMI servers will GP fault if you try to access an empty drive
>with a DOS call, so you should hook Int 24h if you want to prevent this.)

Really? Which DPMI providers do this? I use a findfirst on the drive
looking for a volume label, which of course fails with no disk in the
drive. Would this cause a GP fault on some DPMI providers?

Malcolm

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