Subj : Re: How to detect RAM disks (Was: how to detect cdrom?)
To   : Outsider
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Sun Feb 17 2002 08:28 am

From: Jasen.Betts@p42.f531.n640.z3.cereal.mv.com (Jasen Betts)
Subject: Re: How to detect RAM disks (Was: how to detect cdrom?)

Hi Outsider.

15-Feb-02 08:18:58, Outsider wrote to Matthias Paul

 O> From: Outsider <noreply@nowhere.com>

 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.

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