Re: Floppy handling
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:22:40 +0200
On Fri, Jun 09 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > to actively poll the drive to make it work. Ugh. Fortunately, if somebody
> > wants this type of thing, they can code it up in user space using the
> > CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl.
> >
>
> Polling isn't so bad, however, it really bothers me that this is
> CDROM-specific. We need a way to send packets to any device.
ide-floppy could be easily modified to support this.
> Second, does that give you indication of the user pressing the eject
> button?
Yes, it does.
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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