Subject: Re: eject program
To: Rolf Grossmann <grossman@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/11/1995 11:05:50
	What does 'mt offline' do? - shouldn't the floppy drive respond to
	that ioctl?

		David/abs

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On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Rolf Grossmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> on Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:10:01 -0400 The Source of All Evil wrote 
> concerning "sun-lamp CVS commits" something like this:
> 
> > pk
> > Mon Oct  9 08:01:07 EDT 1995
> > Update of /a/cvsroot/src/usr.bin/fdeject
> > In directory pain.lcs.mit.edu:/b/tmp/cvs-serv25718
> 
> > Added Files:
> > 	Makefile fdeject.1 fdeject.c 
> > Log Message:
> > Floppy eject program.
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if this should not be more generic, so you can eject
> CDROM's, MO and floppies using the same program? To achieve this, I
> suggest that the eject ioctl should be the same value for all eject
> operations (not as we have it now, one for cd's and another one for
> floppy eject). I think the changes required to accomplish this are
> quite minimal, anyway.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Bye, Rolf
>