DiskScan Function Info

Keywords:    removable devices 

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Question on Diskscan and Removable Drives:

I have a question about the DiskScan command under the 32 bit version of WIL. The help file says that a mask value of 1 detects removable (floppy) drives. Will this mask return other removable media drives also, such as Zip, MO, PD, etc. ? If not, is there a mask value that should be used to detect these types ?

Answer:

Yes. Removable media include floppies, Zips and jaz drives. It actually up to the device driver to tell us if it is removable or not.

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Question on Diskscan and Network Physical Drives:

This is probably a silly question but... I looked through the help files and can't seem to find a function similar to DiskScan for a neworked system.

I want to attach to a networked Server or workstation and determine how many devices are PHYSICALLY connected to it (ie: C:\, D:\, etc..).

I looked at netResources, but this only reports back resources that the server is CONNECTED to on the network.

Is there an extended version of DiskScan that works on a remote system?

Answer:

Sorry, no.

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Article ID:   W13053

Filename:   Diskscan Function.txt