On Apr 15, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Kai Cherry wrote:
This is a HUGE problem, norman.
What's worse, XP Pro and XP home do NOT treat discs the same way,
so if you have code that scans for drives, and ignores empties, it
is likely to work properly on XP Home, but not the same on pro,
where it will inform the user that the drive is "empty".
We found and revised some code that used the kernel to do this, but
it the behavior was not consistent between xp pro/home.
I'll see if I can dig it up, but we ended up pulling drive scanning
out entirely and just asking the user to locate the media/drive
they wanted to use...pretty much like the majority of Win32 apps do :)
-K
Thanks !
That should help some.
I've tried all kinds of things with ASPI, IOCTL, and SPTI
And, as you mentioned, it's messy on Windows since it's notion of
"Volumes" is quite ... primitive
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