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Date:      Sat, 5 Jul 1997 07:34:20 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        paulz@trantor.stuyts.nl (Paul van der Zwan)
Subject:   Re: Probing cdrom for presence of disk
Message-ID:  <19970705073420.IP50835@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970704110229.28166A-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Jul 4, 1997 11:03:32 -0700
References:  <199707041702.TAA00468@trantor.stuyts.nl> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970704110229.28166A-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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As Julian Elischer wrote:

> Workman does it..
> see what they do..
> I believe they use a direct SCSI command via the user-scsi facility.

On an ATAPI drive?

Glad they don't do it this way.  However, they don't do it the way
Paul wants it to be done, workman's probing causes blatant SCSI error
messages (not ready, medium not present).

Perhaps we should implement an open(O_NONBLOCK) in the SCSI subsystem?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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