Description

Someone asked how could they check whether the floppy disk was ready in DOS . Here is how to do this in DOS .

Code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <bios.h>

void main(void)
{
char buffer[8192];
if (biosdisk(2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, buffer))
printf("Error accessing drive\n");
else
printf("Drive ready\n");
}

Information

tested using Turbo C

Download

floppyready.txt