>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Knaack <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu> writes:

Phil> 	Problems: how do you detect insertion of the device? Many
Phil> floppies (i understand) have a door switch; perhaps this could
Phil> be monitored? I suspect this would require a kernel
Phil> modification. And as for ZIP drives, does it create any
Phil> particular messages upon device insertion? This sounds like it
Phil> would require a kernel modification as well to detect.

	From the Amiga world, which uses standard 720K PC floppies,
you must step the head to determine if a disk is present.  This is the
source of the Amiga floppy click.  Amigas also poll removable SCSI
media once each second for media change.

	The SGI has a 'mediad' running to do a similar solution.
Wouldn't automount be a better solution to this delema?

Dave.

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