Subj : Re: how to detect cdrom?
To   : Brian.Iglesias@xspamp0.f321.n751.z6
From : Charles Dye
Date : Fri Feb 08 2002 04:44 am

From: Charles.Dye@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Charles Dye)
Subject: Re: how to detect cdrom?

From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye)

On 8 Feb 2002 01:17:00 GMT,
Brian.Iglesias@xspamp0.f321.n751.z6.fidonet.org wrote:

>hello everyone.
>
>i am looking for a generic batch routine that will detect the cdrom
>and ramdrive. this is for a pcdos 2000 bootdisk. previously,
>i was using msdos 6.22 with 'findramd.exe' (with setramd.bat)
>from the win98se ebd, but when i moved it to pcdos it didn't work.
>
>i traced it and 'xmsdsk.exe' loads fine, but 'findramd.exe' does not
>return the errorlevel like before. i have the feeling it doesn't like
>non-MS dos'es.

If you're using XMSDSK, there's no need to 'find' the RAMdisk.  You simply
specify the drive letter you want when you load it.  Saving that value for
later use in batch files is trivial.

   set ram=R:
   xmsdsk 8192 %ram% /y
   md %ram%\temp
   set temp=%ram%\temp
   set tmp=%ram%\temp
   rem  And so on....

The above should work with COMMAND.COM as well as 4DOS.  If you want some drive
letter other than R:, you only need to change the one line.

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