Jeff Meininger wrote:
>
> I'm writing an app that needs to know what floppy drives are connected to
> the system. Right now, I'm parsing the output of 'dmesg', but 'dmesg' can
> fill up so that the part where floppy drives are listed is no longer
> available. Is there an ioctl or some other interface for discovering fd0,
> fd1, etc?
>
You have got some replies already. Another way of detection is
to run devfs, you may do a "ls /dev/floppy" and get
0, 1, 2, ...
devfs report exactly the devices you have, not the devices
you _may_ have. Note that you don't have to convert
your system to use devfs if you don't want to - you can
mount devfs some other place than /dev if all you want
is detection.
Helge Hafting
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