Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 18:54:14 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev |
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On Sat, Jan 03 2004, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Is there really no way to get a media change notification from ZIP or > > JAZ drives? > > If anyone knows please tell me - I will put it into supermount ... > > AFAIK in case of SCSI this is impossible simply by virtue of protocol - SCSI > device is not initiator. So you need something to poll device for status. > That is usually done on device open except in this case you can't open > because you do not yet have handle.
You could queue a media notification request for long periods of time, being completed by the drive when a media change happens. At least mmc allows for this, doubt anyone has ever done it.
So yeah, poll...
-- Jens Axboe
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