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SubjectRe: Can this CD/Floppy Behaviour be Done? [offtopic?]
>     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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