Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:51:57 -0500 From: Glen Mann <gmann@cyberia.com> To: Dave Wells <wellsian@caffeine.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting DOS Volume Label Message-ID: <38C452AD.26117881@cyberia.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003050659140.6344-100000@boris.netgate.net>
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It looks like 0x2600 will grab a directory entry (I'm too lazy to figure that
out for real), which if bit 3 in attributes is set, is a volume label. The
volume label is actually in location 0x2B. Thanks for jump-starting my brain.
Get some sleep! :)
Dave Wells wrote:
>
> Whoops. Make that rfd0 so you can read while it's mounted. You're right,
> formatting seems weird or broken. Or I just need some sleep...
>
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Glen Mann wrote:
>
> > wellsian wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm sure there's a less geekish method, but this works:
> > >
> > > hd -n 11 -s 0x2600 /dev/fd0
> > >
> > > Dave
> >
> > Geekish? On Unix? This is beautiful. I used
> >
> > hd -n 11 -s 0x2600 /dev/fd0 | awk -F\| ' NR==1 {print $2}'
> >
> > to get the volume label. Couldn't get the hd format strings to work, hence
> > awk. This does not work if the floppy is mounted though.
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