Drive Problem

[Dishi Malhotra]

Plz anyone tell me that how can i deduct the CD ROM Drive i.e It is D: or F: or any colon plz help me

[Cindy Glass]

That would be operating system specific.

[Dishi Malhotra]

candy i can't get u what u want to say but i want to deduct from programing

[ryan burgdorfer]

there's another one calling you "candy"...
must be because you are so <h3>sweet</h3>

[Frank Carver]

Java is platform independent, and knows nothing about drives, CD-ROM or otherwise. It only knows how to open a File, given a path to the file. If you know the path to a file on the CD-ROM, you can tell Java to open it for you, but it does not know or care whether a file is on a CD-ROM, DVD, Floppy, IDE dosk, SCSI disk, ramdisk, flash ram card or mounted over the network.

[Siva Prasad]

Originally posted by Dishi Malhotra:
Plz anyone tell me that how can i deduct the CD ROM Drive i.e It is D: or F: or any colon plz help me

Hi Dishi
Finding a drive or looking at the properties of a file/directory all these are lowlevel/machinelevel operations. You need to call a lowlevel function for this but as far as I know there is no such API call in JDK.
Java was invented to avoid these lowlevel botherings
Siva Prasad

[Bruce Wingate]

I'll expand on what Cindy said: It's OS dependent. If you want to find a CD-ROM drive or a floppy, you will need to call out of Java to the native operating system. To do this, I think that you would use JNI, but I am not really sure.
Windows has a couple of API calls that will help you deduce what drive might be a CD-ROM, but you cannot be sure, unless there are additional new functions I am unaware of. From what I remember, the function would return a drive letter and the type of drive, either fixed or removable. You could guess that a removable drive higher than C: is a CD-ROM, but then you could be wrong with Zip drives.
Unfortunately, I don't know the function name off-hand, but a check thru Microsoft's site or Petzgold's book should turn it up.

[Siva Prasad]

Originally posted by Bruce Wingate:

Unfortunately, I don't know the function name off-hand, but a check thru Microsoft's site or Petzgold's book should turn it up.

It is.. getdrive() API call in Win SDK.

[Val Dra]

yes i think you can call native api from windows sytem to get this working.