Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Dec 1998 19:56:53 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: Can this CD/Floppy Behaviour be Done? [offtopic?] |
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H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote :
>Followup to: <366C4F74.350D6D9D@chrysler.com> >By author: Dennis Grant <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com> >In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel >> >> I was futzing with my system in user-space last night, and I wonder if >> there's a way to do something: >> >> One of the behaviours I really miss from my Amiga days is the ability to >> auto-detect and auto-mount removeable media filesystems. >> > >This is very hard (read: highly unsafe) to do on the PC, because the >hardware doesn't give a signal to the OS that something has been >inserted, and even worse -- that something is about to be removed.
Neither on the Amiga, the OS must poll the status. Even more , if the drive is empty , it will report empty until you move the heads ( and a floppy is inserted ). I never understand why is this ... ( the head movement requirement )
>Even IDE CD-ROMs with a soft button and motorized mechanisms, which >*should* be able to do this, don't give the software the neccessary >clues that something has been inserted, or that someone pressed the >button.
How does then Win95 detect the inserted CD ? ( a retorical question, it probably polls the drive status periodicaly )
-- David Balazic , student E-mail : 1stein@writeme.com | living in sLOVEnija home page: http://surf.to/stein Computer: Amiga 1200 + Quantum LPS-340AT --
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