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List:       freedos-dev
Subject:    Re: freeDOS feature req?
From:       John Price <linux-guru () gcfl ! net>
Date:       1999-03-31 5:47:55
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I remember reading your request before.  It's not very clear to me.

Are you asking for an option to make FreeDOS fail faster when it gets a
disk error?

How are you testing for the existance of a drive?

I have found in the past that using DOS function INT 21, AH=1C is a good
way to test for local drives...  I'm not sure what this will do on a
remote drive.

Later,
John

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, John Sowden wrote:

> I just subscribed.  I don't know the established protocol to make feature
> requests/suggestions, so I'll just jump in.
> 
> Periodically I need to test for the existance of a drive (usually accross a
> peer to peer lan).  If the remote drive (or local) is not available (net
> not on line at remote end, no disk in floppy, etc., the testing routing
> takes a long time (multiple tries?).  My thought is that if normal use
> takes 1 second to access a drive, then testing for more than three seconds
> (these times are all relative) should create a fail, as even if the drive
> is there, something is wrong.  A suceed for a drive that takes an excessive
> time to access, is akin to formatting (and using) a floppy with bad
> sectors.
> 
> Possibly an fdconfig.sys switch to defeat the above for true testing.
> 
> John
> 
> John R. Sowden
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