Subj : Re: How to detect RAM disks (Was: how to detect cdrom?)
To   : Matthias Paul
From : Charles Dye
Date : Thu Feb 14 2002 11:57 pm

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

From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye)

"Matthias Paul" <Matthias.Paul@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

>RAMDRIVE.SYS in fact uses F8h as a media byte, but DR DOS'
>VDISK.SYS uses FEh to emulate a single sided 8 sectors/track
>disk, with 128 byte sector size (160 Kb). TDSK and BITDISK
>used to use FAh like Tandy DOS, but I have changed this to
>F8h meanwhile.

Well, shoot.  I would definitely want to detect the DR DOS RAMdisk. And I'd
prefer to test some common quality, instead of keeping a long list of strings
to match.  Do you know whether all of the above use only a single FAT?

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