Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 02:57:12 EST


On Mon, Feb 04 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 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)...

Yep, _no_ drives to date support queued event notification. However, a
polled approach is really not too bad -- it simply means that we'll push
it to user space instead. I've written a small utility for reference.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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