Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:41:19 -0800 (PST) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: Detecting media insertion |
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Solaris does the same. You can see the cdrom drive access lamp flicker at regular intervals as it is being polled. vold constantly checks for a media change.
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Alistair Riddell wrote: > >This has been brought up many times before... > >There is no way that you can detect media insertion/eject with standard > >hardware. > >Windows works by polling the device every few seconds which obviously > >increases the load on the system. > > Polling would be fine. This is not something I need to do > one thousand times per second. There is no need for an interrupt line. > I just don't want the system to pull the drive tray in when I check. >
George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.
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