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Old November 12th, 2005, 02:32 PM
Richard H. Rowson
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Does anyone know of a way to detect which drive is a Zip drive (I guess in
the same way that the various system variables can be queried) ?>Thanks



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Old November 12th, 2005, 02:32 PM
Tony Toews
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"Richard H. Rowson" <richard@dragonsong1.co.uk> wrote:
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>Does anyone know of a way to detect which drive is a Zip drive (I guess in
>the same way that the various system variables can be queried) ?>Thanks[/color]

AFAIK all you can determine is if it is a removable drive. There are API calls for
this. http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=45

It may be possible that the ZIP drivers have some API call you can make to see if
they are ZIP drives. But you'd have to check IOMega's website.

Tony

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Old November 12th, 2005, 02:33 PM
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Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:<lnf8pv8t60h7v1m05hc807fleodgfn9ek8@4ax.com>. ..[color=blue]
> "Richard H. Rowson" <richard@dragonsong1.co.uk> wrote:
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> >Does anyone know of a way to detect which drive is a Zip drive (I guess in
> >the same way that the various system variables can be queried) ?>Thanks[/color]
>
> AFAIK all you can determine is if it is a removable drive. There are API calls for
> this. http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=45
>
> It may be possible that the ZIP drivers have some API call you can make to see if
> they are ZIP drives. But you'd have to check IOMega's website.
>
> Tony[/color]


It's probably in the registry somewhere - no idea where, tho'.

TC
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Old November 12th, 2005, 02:34 PM
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aatcbbtccctc@yahoo.com (TC) wrote:
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>It's probably in the registry somewhere - no idea where, tho'.[/color]

Good point. Searching on Zip could find it.

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