Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:38:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Can this CD/Floppy Behaviour be Done? [offtopic?] |
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> I doubt polling is involved in Win9x-NT, I have seen cases in which the > inserted CD is not detected. This was usually correctable by either telling > the explorer to refresh or by trying to access the drive. This is > especially quite common when trying to use a CDROM through its DOS real mode > drivers. This suggest that the insertion event is actually detected and not > polled for as polling would (most likely, this is MS code after all) not > encounter similar problems. When pressing refresh it is actually as if you > were telling the system to poll the current contents.
It's polled.. You can even see the light breifly blink on some cdroms.. :) It doesn't work with the real mode drivers because the drivers dont support the poll command it uses..
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