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Reading Drive Name
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| David Borger 2007-03-30, 7:11 pm |
| In windows explorer my external hard drive shows up as
'SEA_DISK(G:).' Is there a Matlab callable function to which I could
pass 'G:' as a parameter and have it return 'SEA_DISK?'
My problem is that I have two external hard drives, one at work and
one at home, both of which I attach to as G. I would like certain
programs to be able to determine which physical device was attached
at the time.
Dave
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| Scott Seidman 2007-03-30, 7:11 pm |
| "David Borger" <borger@ix.netcom.com> wrote in news:ef52db1.-1
@webcrossing.raydaftYaTP:
> In windows explorer my external hard drive shows up as
> 'SEA_DISK(G:).' Is there a Matlab callable function to which I could
> pass 'G:' as a parameter and have it return 'SEA_DISK?'
>
> My problem is that I have two external hard drives, one at work and
> one at home, both of which I attach to as G. I would like certain
> programs to be able to determine which physical device was attached
> at the time.
>
> Dave
Maybe "dos('dir')" will return what you need, maybe not.
Why don't you put a read-only file with a unique name on the root directory
of each drive? That way you can check to see which file exists with a
simple "dir", or even "exist".
Alternatively, you can create diskname.m on each drive, containing a string
with the drive name.
--
Scott
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