How to get list of all present disc drives? (RISCOSCloverleaf)

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Oct 25, 2021 1:46pm Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts	@Jon and @Chris Regarding the Partition bounty, it’s been over a year since it was assigned with no updates what-so-ever. Is it still being actively developed? This point was raised at one of the online shows earlier this year. Steve Revill of ROOL confirmed that the bounty claimant has unfortunately has taken on a new contract/job that has taken priority. As a result work on the bounty has been temporarily postponed. So I would guess from looking at the Bounty progress page that this is still the current status.

Oct 25, 2021 10:16pm Steve Drain (222) 1620 posts	For amusement only … You know how it is, you do something for amusement and then it niggles at you and you end up spending too much time on it. Well that has happened with Drives , so that it now possibly useful. It is still a very small program. It still uses the Resources.$.Discs directory, but it finds active drives automatically and continues to update them, so removeable media are correctly shown. There is also access to the current Size, Used and Free space, but nothing else, yet. It does deal with Fat32FS sticks, but only with a fudge. I believe this is a known problem with SCSIFS, but I would be delighted to be enlightened. This is my first foray in the world of file systems and it is a dark and wonderous place. ;-)

Oct 28, 2021 8:55pm Matthew Phillips (473) 721 posts	This is my first foray in the world of file systems and it is a dark and wonderous place. There’s some lovely stuff in that area, and also some very annoying things too. I wrote an Image Filing System many years ago to support CP/M discs, in assembly language. (I wouldn’t do that now.) I really must get round to 32-bitting it wile I still have a 32-bit machine with a working floppy drive.

Oct 28, 2021 9:35pm Steve Drain (222) 1620 posts	There’s some lovely stuff in that area, and also some very annoying things too I have delved deep enough to appreciate both the good and the annoying, but I have been able do what I want with Drives so far with higher level intefaces. As for the topic itself, it does seem that you have to poll each filesystem to get a list of drives.