Re: 'detect' floppy hardware from userland? ioctl?

Justin A (justin@bouncybouncy.net)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:33:18 -0400


grep fd /proc/devices
:)

-Justin

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:31:27PM -0500, Jeff Meininger wrote:
>
> I'm writing an app that needs to know what floppy drives are connected to
> the system. Right now, I'm parsing the output of 'dmesg', but 'dmesg' can
> fill up so that the part where floppy drives are listed is no longer
> available. Is there an ioctl or some other interface for discovering fd0,
> fd1, etc?
>
> Thanks.
> BTW, I'm not a list member, please Cc: my address!
> -Jeff M
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