Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 16:05:36 +0300 (IDT)
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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Last year I was on a news group, and one programmer had the 
> source for detecting  a harddisk (returns TRUE or FALSE) and 
> then he was able to detect FAT12/16 partitions on it...

Did you try `getmntent' from the DJGPP library?  Does it succeed in 
detecting accessible and inaccessible drives?  If so, you could take some 
of the code there and use it for your purposes.