Hi,
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Mercury Thirteen
<mercury0x0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In keeping with Tom's earlier suggestion, I give you Drives, the disk info
> tool - now in standalone form! :)
>
> It's still a bit buggy - I have to sort out an issue with repeating drive
> labels and a couple other odds and ends - but 90% of the program is usable
> and functional. Just type "drives" and see a brief summary of the drives
> available in the current environment and the letters assigned to them.
>
> http://www.mercurycoding.com/drives/drives.bas
> http://www.mercurycoding.com/drives/drives.exe
>
> Feedback is welcome!
Right now, I'm using my laptop. I do have a RUFUS USB stick lying
around if you want me to test under raw FreeDOS, but I'm not doing
anything unusual with drives. In other words, my testing is limited in
usefulness. But I have been playing with a (heavily modified) QEMU
image of my own making in the last week or so.
====================================
Drives Drive information tool
v1.0 2007 - 2015 by Mercury0x000d
[mercury0x0...@no.spam.no.spam.gmail.spam.sux.]
Detected drives: 4
type
label additional data (if applicable)
a: floppy drive NO NAME 3.5 inch, 1440 KB
c: hard drive NO NAME
d: hard drive QEMU VVFAT
g: not detected
====================================
A:\ is a (very slightly) modified METADOS floppy .img.
C:\ is a new (100 MB, qcow2) hard drive .img that I'm using to test
some random stuff.
D:\ is just a virtual drive that lets me read/write files (when rarely
needed) to/from host OS. ("-drive file=fat:rw:/rugxulo/tmp/rugxdos")
G:\ is my RAM disk (formerly using Jack's RDISK, now temporarily using
SHSURDRV only because I might rarely unload it instead of rebooting).
The labels for them are (in order): META_DOS, (none), QEMU VVFAT, and SCRATCH.
Just for comparison, there are two other (obvious) programs I know of
to detect drives.
1).
http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/volinfxl-disk-usage-info.zip
2). http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=6721#p6723
http://www.delorie.com/bin/cvsweb.cgi/djgpp/src/libc/compat/mntent/mntent.c?rev=1.13
The former is written in Turbo Pascal (with source, natch). Though it
ignores drives with no label or "MS-RAMDRIVE" (and apparently also
ignores floppy).
The latter is just a discussion we had a few years back where I
mentioned DJGPP's mntent.c (although you're presumably still using
PowerBASIC here, and I have no idea how much raw DJGPP support
FreeBASIC has, though it does have a fair bit since it's obviously
based upon it, so I don't know if using FBC instead is ultra
transparent here with its bindings).
mntent.c -DTEST (from djlsr203.zip since I only have an old GCC 2.95.3
/ 2.03p2 installed, for now) doesn't list sizes (presumably see df.exe
from /v2gnu/fil41b.zip or whatever) but does list label, type (e.g.
fd, hd, ram), and number (00,02,03,06) plus letter (a,c,d,g).
Either way, they should give you some ideas.
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