Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:24:32 +0200
From: Vincenzo Morello <morellov AT tin DOT it>
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Subject: Re: Drive type under DOS djgpp
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Call the library function `getmntent' and look at the `mnt_type'
> member of the struct it returns.

I tested it and it works fine, but unfortunately it looks like I have to apply 
getmntent() to all possible mounted file systems. This has the side effect of 
performing a seek to all floppy drives.
I need the drive type information when opening the file browser of my GUI library, 
and having to wait for the empty floppy drives to complete the seek is a little 
annoying.
As a temporary fix I'm currently using function _is_remote_drive() which allows me 
to distinguish the CDROM unit from the HD unit (even in djgpp 2.0.3).
Hopefully the function suggested by Gisle (_is_cdrom_drive()) coming in 2.0.4 
would help me distinguishing a CDROM unit from a network drive.

I'll release soon the GUI demo for my cross-platform GUI library´using djgpp+GRX.

Thanks to both Eli and Gisle,
/Vincenzo