On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Frank van der Linden wrote:

: > IIRC, there is a BIOS call on i386 to check if there is a medium
: > loaded in the drive; that would be worth checking.
:
: Well.. if the BIOS can do it, it must be doable by the driver itself
: which would obviously the preferable solution.

This depends on the drive's (and controller's) ability to send signals on
the DC (diskchange) line -- not all do, so you need to keep that in mind
when adding the support.

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