Determining type of drive a file is on

[Trevor DeVore]

On Aug 2, 2004, at 4:26 PM, kee nethery wrote:

> How about:
> Get a list of all the attached volumes, names and sizes
> See if the USB drive that you initialized is visible and see if it is 
> the same size as what you configured it to be.
> Then see that you are running from that volume.
> Not fool proof but it's a start.
> If you have a way to read a specific block on the drive, you could use 
> that data to provide yet another check. Put a tiny 1K file on the 
> drive, add your file to the drive. Delete the 1K file. It will look 
> like there is just your drive but if they duplicate the whole thing to 
> another USB key, that 1K blank space won't be there.

That sounds like a great idea.  Any suggestions on how to read a 
specific block on a drive?  Does Rev have a built in way to do this or 
would it require an external?


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com