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SubjectRe: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland
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> Jens Axboe and I wrote a little test app a year or two ago to check
> for whether drives supported asynchronous mode. We found it to be
> unsupported on 100% of the drives we tested (and we tested quite a
> few)...

I also found no drive with asynchronous and at best patchy and dubious
synchronous notification. Many cheap drives don't report an event if you
push the button with the door locked for example.

Something like volumagic, cleaned up, is a much better solution
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