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SubjectRe: Detecting media insertion

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
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