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Re: Detecting CD-ROM drive
- To: Arlindo da Silva <arlindo at niteroi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Detecting CD-ROM drive
- From: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:48:09 -0500
At 10:38 PM 10/29/97 -0500, Arlindo da Silva wrote:
>
>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
You can use GetDriveType(). Here's some info on it from the MSDN Library.
The GetDriveType function determines whether a disk drive is a removable,
fixed, CD-ROM, RAM disk, or network drive.
UINT GetDriveType(
LPCTSTR lpRootPathName // address of root path
);
Parameters
lpRootPathName
Points to a null-terminated string that specifies the root directory of the
disk to return information about. If lpRootPathName is NULL, the function
uses the root of the current directory.
Return Values
The return value specifies the type of drive. It can be one of the following
values:
Value Meaning
0 The drive type cannot be determined.
1 The root directory does not exist.
DRIVE_REMOVABLE The drive can be removed from the drive.
DRIVE_FIXED The disk cannot be removed from the drive.
DRIVE_REMOTE The drive is a remote (network) drive.
DRIVE_CDROM The drive is a CD-ROM drive.
DRIVE_RAMDISK The drive is a RAM disk.
See Also
GetDiskFreeSpace
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053
8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX
Wellesley, MA 02181
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