Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: Of removable devices

# Re: Of removable devices

David Balazic (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:49:37 +0100

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ejc (eli.carter@inet.com) wrote :

> I haven't been following this thread closely, nor do I know the floppy
> low-level hardware, but I had a question (under the heading of "food for
> thought"): Is it possible (for the floppy case) for Linux to keep the
> LED on during the time it is unsafe to eject the disk? (LED is on while
> mounted, turned off when unmounted?) If the hardware doesn't give you
> that control, then obviously you can toss this suggestion. :)

It would probaly be on if the drive motor is on.
The system could just read somthing from the disk every now and then.
That would make either a turned on LED or a flashing LED ( even cooler
:-)
Offcourse it should be taken into concern to read from the HW, not from
cache.

The floppy driver maintainer should knowhow this works ...

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    David Balazic

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