[Gllug] linux and floppy disks

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:26:09PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:14:07PM -0400, Ian Norton wrote:
> > I was working on an idea for linux boxen in schools, one stumbling block i
> > could see is the mounting and unmounting of floppies. is there any way to not
> > need to do this? maybe mounting the floppy with 0 caching? i dunno.
> 
> Hum. Well, obviously nothing knows when a new floppy hits the drive.

IIRC, with 3 1/2 inch drives it is possible to poll the drive and detect
changes. 


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Bruce

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