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- From: BO BENDTSEN
- Subj: Diskfree...
-
- MT> Has anyone noticed the problem with TP returning the wrong values from the
- MT> DISKFREE function on large size HD's? We have a 2 gig drive at work
- MT> (actual total is like 1900000000 bytes free), and pascal returns something
- MT> like 576009491. All variables are longint.
-
-
- Many people does not think about it, but DOS is limited to report more than
- 1 gigabyte. Myself I have a 1.3 giga and a 1.0 giga, and made these routines
- for my programs for knowing if the size is more than 1 giga. Using the normal
- DiskSize and DiskFree could get you strange result, sometimes it could report
- maybe 100MB when it is really 1 giga.
-
- If the size og free space is 1 you can assume that the drive is more than 1
- gigabyte.}
-
- Function DriveSize(d:byte):Longint; { -1 not found, 1=>1 Giga }
- Var
- R : Registers;
- Begin
- With R Do
- Begin
- ah:=$36; dl:=d; Intr($21,R);
- If AX=$FFFF Then DriveSize:=-1 { Drive not found }
- Else If (DX=$FFFF) or (Longint(ax)*cx*dx=1073725440) Then DriveSize:=1
- Else DriveSize:=Longint(ax)*cx*dx;
- End;
- End;
-
- Function DriveFree(d:byte):Longint; { -1 not found, 1=>1 Giga }
- Var
- R : Registers;
- Begin
- With R Do
- Begin
- ah:=$36; dl:=d; Intr($21,R);
- If AX=$FFFF Then DriveFree:=-1 { Drive not found }
- Else If (BX=$FFFF) or (Longint(ax)*bx*cx=1073725440) Then DriveFree:=1
- Else DriveFree:=Longint(ax)*bx*cx;
- End;
- End;