From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:07:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there a floppy in the drive? (CD-ROM drives)

  Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:-
> ... In my experience, CD-ROM drives return most of the queries just the same
> whether they are empty or not (of course, if you try to list the directory,
> you'll know if they are empty, but other than that most of DOS functions
> return with success). I've also never seen Abort/Retry/Explode from trying
> to use an empty CD-ROM; the calls just fail. ...

  Mine does. I just called DIR on my empty CD-ROM drive, and this happened:-
  ............................................
C:\AM>dir e:

CDR101: Not ready reading drive E
Abort, Retry, Fail?f
Volume in drive E has no label

CDR101: Not ready reading drive E
Abort, Retry, Fail?f
Fail on INT 24
  ............................................
  Does this behaviour vary with different CD-ROM drivers or different makes of
CD-ROM drives?