Excellent suggestion.  It's results in messy error messages when no
floppy is found but it seems to work just fine.

Thanks!

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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>
> Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us> writes:
> > Does anyone know of a way to determine if a floppy has been inserted into
> > the drive before attempting to mount it?
>
> Try to read a block or two from the raw device before mount?
>
> > I have a scripted process that
> > I'd like to have wait and periodically check for the existance of the
> > floppy before mouunting it and continuing.
> >
> >   /\---/\  Eric J Fox
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> >     \@/    "Of course it runs NetBSD."
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> >
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> Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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