On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to detect insertion of media
> (such as a CDROM, floppy or zip cartridge) without noticeable physical
> hardware activity. For example, I would like to bring up a CDROM icon
> as soon as the user inserts a CDROM without the user having to do
> anything else to bring this to the computer's attention, just like
> under Windows.
>
> Simply trying to read a byte every second from /dev/fd0 or the
> CDROM device is unacceptable, because that causes the floppy to
> spin up and make a lot of noise and causes the cdrom drive to retract
> its tray.
>
> I don't believe that there is currently any ioctl defined
> or this purpose or even a defined way for kernel code to get this
> information from a device driver, but I'd like to know if there is.
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