Re: Detecting media insertion

Adam J. Richter (adam@yggdrasil.com)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:05:32 -0800

Alistair Riddell wrote:
>This has been brought up many times before...
>There is no way that you can detect media insertion/eject with standard
>hardware.
>Windows works by polling the device every few seconds which obviously
>increases the load on the system.

Polling would be fine. This is not something I need to do
one thousand times per second. There is no need for an interrupt line.
I just don't want the system to pull the drive tray in when I check.

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