Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:52:21 +0100 (CET) | From | Francis Galiegue <> | Subject | Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages |
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> So I'm still wondering what the "approved and recommended" way for a program > to be "automatically" informed of a CD or floppy change/insertion and be able to > informed of media 'type' w/o kernel warnings/error messages. It sounds like > there is no kernel support for this so far? > > Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and recommended > way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type' > without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS? >
The main problem is, in fact: none of floppy drives/IDE floppies/CDROMs/whatever can do asynchronous medium change notifications (at least not that I know of), so you'll need to poll anyway... And of course, the commands to send depend on the device...
-- Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com - Normand et fier de l'être "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook
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