Re: List of disc devices in a system

Hi Lino,

Well I did not have any problems with my DVD drives, my floppy drive however
caused an error message to be displayed:

import java.io.File;

public class ListRoots {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File[] roots = File.listRoots();
        File[] ignoreRoots = new File[] { new File("a:\\") };
        listRoots: for (File file : roots) {
            for (File ignoreRoot : ignoreRoots) {
                if (file.equals(ignoreRoot)) {
                    System.out.println("[ignored]" + file);
                    continue listRoots;
                }
            }
            System.out.println((!file.canRead() ? "[not available]" : "") +
file);
        }
    }
}

Running the code above on a Windows XP gave:
[ignored]A: C: D: [not available]E: [not available]F: [not available]Z:
So maybe a workaround would be to ignore the floppy drive as the code above
does - which roots to ignore could be configurable in your application.

Cheers,
Martin.

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