Hi Marco (and the rest),
there seems to be a problem with EDOS' drive detection routine. I checked this program in several PCs:
====
program test;
uses EDOS;
var c,d: byte;
begin
for c:=1 to 10 do {no more than 10 drives!}
begin
d := drivetype(c);
if d>0 then begin
write (chr(c+ord('A')-1),': is of type ');
case d of
1: WriteLn ('remote');
2: WriteLn ('fixed');
3: WriteLn ('removable');
4: WriteLn ('substed');
5: WriteLn ('cdrom');
end
end
end
end.
====And in every cases:
Hard drives are DETECTED
Floppies and CD-ROMs are NOT detected. For example, I get:
C: is of type fixed
although I have also a floppy (A:) and a CD-ROM (D:). Same at home: I have several visible primary partitions, which are recognised, but I was unlucky with the floppy and cd-rom. In addition:
- I hear it is doing some noise in the floppy drive during the test (I hope it's not the case that it only works if a floppy is inserted)
- The CD-ROM is not detected, regardless of wether I use a CD-ROM driver+MSCDEX (in CONFIG and AUTOEXEC) or not.
I am interested in the DOS (Go32V2) case, not windows. Does any of you have an idea of what is wrong, or have some extra code to do this?
Aitor