Re: cdrom for embedded systems

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:26:45 -0500

On Sun, Jan 09 2000, Netnoise wrote:
> How can I intercept when the cdrom's open button is pressed.
> My developing embedded system need to know when the user try to open the
> cdrom... how can I ?

You can't really, not now. The problem is that to make that happen,
we have to poll the drive continually for events (GET_EVENT_STATUS).
The standard does cover asynchronous notification, but I haven't
seen any drives that support it...

-- 
*  Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
*  Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
*  http://www.kernel.dk


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