Detecting CD-ROM drive

Thomas Dryden tdryden@iil.intel.com
Thu Oct 30 06:27:00 GMT 1997


Arlindo,

GetLogicalDrives() will return a dword mask specifying which drives
exist in the system, bit0 corresponding to drive "A:".  If the bit is
true, the drive exists.  Once you have this info, you can then call
GetDriveType() which will return one of the following:

0                 - type unknown
1                 - root dir does not exist
DRIVE_REMOVEABLE
DRIVE_FIXED
DRIVE_REMOTE
DRIVE_CDROM
DRIVE_RAMDISK

BTW, if you are on NT, then you can call GetLogicalDriveStrings() rather
than GetLogicalDrives() which will return (arguably) more information
in the form of:
A:\<null>
B:\<null>
...
<null>

-Thomas
 
=> Arlindo da Silva writes:
> 
> Does anybody know how to determine which drive (d:, e:, ...) is a CDROM? 
> Is there any native function for this? Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Arlindo da Silva    
> dasilva@alum.mit.edu
> 
> 
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