From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Detecting connected disk drives
Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:14:17 +0000
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I have recently discovered a problem with the file selector routines in
Allegro, which is caused by selecting disk B: on a machine with only one
floppy drive. DOS displays the "please insert disk B into drive A"
message, which results in a lockup because the Allegro keyboard handler
prevents the continue keypress getting through to DOS.

I've racked my brains but can't think of any way round this - please
someone tell me there is an easy solution :-) I need to either disable
the message, or detect whether disk B really exists, but I have no idea
how to do either. Any ideas?

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