>"Kevin J Prince" <ke***@princ7.demon.co.uk> posted:
>> Is it possible to find out what type of media is currently in
>> a CD or DVD rom drive. For example R or RW and how
>> much space?
>> To be used to check if there is space and ability to write to
>> the current drive with data.
>
>I think the best you might do involves checking the contents
>drive for a disk and inspecting the contents and/or the file
>system of the drive...
>
>ie, reading information about the "file system" tells you if it's
>a DVD or CD or other media. I believe the same things that
>happened with floppy drives, happened with DVD's as well.
>For instance, the floppy disks started out with a particular
>file system formatting (single-sided, then later came double-
>sided, then later double-density... and so on). Keep that in
>mind when dealing with this topic. CD's carry different
>file systems as well, because there are at least two formats
>that I know of, a 650K CD and 700K CD.
>
>Scroll down to Drive Info on this page...
>http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/fileapi/index.html
>
>Check media type...
>http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/disk/getmediatype.htm
>
>You can check the file-system used on the disk...
>http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/driveinfo.htm
>
>You can check the amount of free space...
>http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/getdiskfreespaceex.htm
>
>Check out these links as well...
>http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/cdexists.htm
>http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/floppyready.htm
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>--
>Jim Carlock
>Post replies to the newsgroup, thanks.
>
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