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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Detecting disk change
- Message-ID: <223@complex.complex.is>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:05:16 GMT
- References: <sankey.728153663@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
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- sankey@unixg.ubc.ca (Todd Sankey) writes:
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- > Is there any reliable way to detect if the floppy disk has been
- >changed short of actually reading it?
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- Not if you want something that works on *all* machines. There is one method,
- but it will not work on OLD PC's and (I think) the first XT's ....
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- -frisk
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