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   Bart to All   
   Re: Marco&Femme&Bart / Vol-Drive/Solutio   
   02 Mar 07 19:13:28   
   
   From: broersma.juda_ANTISPAM_@tiscali.nl   
      
   Op Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:38:25 GMT schreef nobody   
   :   
      
   >Dear Gentlemen,   
   >   
   >sorry to have bothered you - I had the solution and did not see it.   
   >Found now - an elegant method in:   
   >Cristi Streng 1998/ Collection of Long-Filenames-Routines /DOS70,   
   >does exactly, what I was looking for.   
   >For mapping hidden or unpartitioned "partitions" the above mentioned   
   >method is obvouisly the only way, but to find visible partitions only   
   >intr $21, ax: $440D, cx: $086F is perfect (small + simple code):   
   >input Volume (ABCDE...), output drive (floppy-,HD-Nr. - even finds   
   >USB-attached HD - ,+ BPB-sector + drive-type)   
      
   If I do that in plain DOS (WinME bootdisk) it just sets the carryflag   
   and returns $05 in AX as errorcode and the parameterblock stays empty.   
   Running it in a WinMe dosbox gives me an illegal function call...   
   Do you run some specific driver that catches this interrupt?   
      
   Bart   
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