Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:49:37 +0100 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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ejc (eli.carter@inet.com) wrote :
> I haven't been following this thread closely, nor do I know the floppy > low-level hardware, but I had a question (under the heading of "food for > thought"): Is it possible (for the floppy case) for Linux to keep the > LED on during the time it is unsafe to eject the disk? (LED is on while > mounted, turned off when unmounted?) If the hardware doesn't give you > that control, then obviously you can toss this suggestion. :)
It would probaly be on if the drive motor is on. The system could just read somthing from the disk every now and then. That would make either a turned on LED or a flashing LED ( even cooler :-) Offcourse it should be taken into concern to read from the HW, not from cache.
The floppy driver maintainer should knowhow this works ...
-- David Balazic
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