How to tell if a floppy is in the drive

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Academia

I don't suppose there is any way to tell if there is a floppy in a floppy
drive without activating the drive and causing it to make a noise if there
is no floppy in the drive.

Is there?




Thanks
 
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Martin CLAVREUIL

Hi Academia,

There is no way to do it the way you ask because a floppy drive is an
old system and no event is fired in the system (and usb/cdrom drive does
it) at the moment of the insertion of the floppy. So the only way is to
test it.

Academia wrote :
 
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olduncleamos

I don't suppose there is any way to tell if there is a floppy in a floppy
drive without activating the drive and causing it to make a noise if there
is no floppy in the drive.

Is there?

Thanks
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What is a floppy?
 
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Academia

Thanks a lot

Martin CLAVREUIL said:
Hi Academia,

There is no way to do it the way you ask because a floppy drive is an old
system and no event is fired in the system (and usb/cdrom drive does it)
at the moment of the insertion of the floppy. So the only way is to test
it.

Academia wrote :
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