Subject: Re: Poor behavior on I/O error...
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jarom=EDr_Dolecek?= <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/22/2001 15:22:13
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:05:23PM +0200, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:
> Yeah, this fd(4) behaviour bothered me for quite a long time.
> I'd be grateful if it would be fixed :)

I agree.

> 
> 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.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                           fvdl@wasabisystems.com
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