INF: What _dos_setdrive() Returns as the Number of Drives

ID Number: Q42461

5.00 5.10 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00

MS-DOS

Summary:

In Microsoft C versions 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0ax, and C/C++ version

7.0, the run-time function _dos_setdrive() takes two arguments, as

follows:

void _dos_setdrive( unsigned drive, unsigned *numdrives)

The "numdrives" argument receives the number of possible drives in the

system. With MS-DOS versions 1.x and 2.x, this value is 2, since two

logical drives (A and B) are supported on a single floppy-disk drive.

With MS-DOS 3.0 or greater, the value returned is 5 or the number set

with LASTDRIVE in the CONFIG.SYS, whichever is greater.

This information is returned from interrupt 21h, function 0Eh.

Additional reference words: 5.00 5.10 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00