Re: Floppy handling

From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 08:01:39 EST


>From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:24:12 +1000 (EST)
>Subject: Re: Floppy handling

>- - You stick a floppy in the drive and this causes a "media change"
> event on the real device.

I could easily be wrong, but I thought that one of the fundamental
problems was that the floppy h/w can't do this. I think someone
mentioned that you have to poll to get this effect.

--p

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