Check for floppy in drive

[JWilsonny]

Is there a quick and dirty way to test for a floppy in the floppy drive without generating an foxpro error (or win 98 sys I/O error) if there is no floppy in the drive? Thanks. FP26.

 

[davidtoranzo]

Hi,

From

http://www.jjtc.com/Fox/foxfiles/

yoy can download "gp30.zip", which, according to the documentation, icludes a function named "isdiskin()".

Good luck. Hope this helps!

David.

 

[tilltek]

I have a binary file "isdiskin" which does what you want.
Search the web for it and if you can't find it drop me a line at tilltek@hotmail.com and I'll Email it to you.
Works every time.

 

[Jerry4DOS]

I've had good luck in FoxPro for DOS 2.6 with a library file called DRIVEOK.PLB. If you can't find it, give me a holler. Jerry@r67.net

 

[RAS56]

We use ZDrvStat. It's public domain and will let you check for the existence of a drive, the current status (RO, Writable) and whether it has a disk in it. Do a search for zdrvstat. If you can't find it, I can send it to you.

 

[Jerry4DOS]

ZDrvStat (above) works great! Even handles write-protected disks, which my DriveOK (above-above) doesn't. I'm sold -- and thanks.