Subj : Re: How to detect RAM disks (Was: how to detect cdrom?) To : Outsider From : Jasen Betts Date : Sun Feb 17 2002 12:28 am Hi Outsider. 15-Feb-02 08:18:58, Outsider wrote to Matthias Paul O> From: Outsider O> Matthias Paul wrote: > >> Well, a heuristical combination of all these tests might give a >> very good indication of a RAM disk... O> > O> VOL %1: |FIND/C " " |FIND "1" >nul pipes are bad on a read-only boot disk (a typical application for ramdisk locating code) there's no guarantee that all ramdisks will lack a serial number, or that all non-ramdisks will have one. 4dos does vol on a single line. DRDOS vol never reports the serial number. O> Can anyone report what messages are generated on a network drive O> with this command: "ECHO |FORMAT.COM %1:" (ms-dos 6.22) If I try to format my cd-rom it says "Cannot format a network drive" I guess this is the same as if I try to format a network drive and obviously depends on language settings etc. I know of at-least one ramdisk that does support format. -=> Bye <=- --- * Origin: Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. (3:640/531.42) .