From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jun 30 07:44:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01487 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dworkin.amber.org (petrilli@dworkin.amber.org [209.31.146.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01469 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petrilli@dworkin.amber.org) Received: from localhost (petrilli@localhost) by dworkin.amber.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA13089; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:43:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:43:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher G. Petrilli" To: Gerd Truschinski cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP - Server with ZIP an Floppy In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980630163129.0093a210@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Gerd Truschinski wrote: > Is it possible to write to a disk 'without' mounting the file > system each time? Is there something like 'mount volatile'? > To make it clear, I don't want to have any useraction like > 'mount -t msdos'. > > Should I stay with KA9Q and DOS because this is not > possible with FreeBSD. I can't speak to ATAPI/IDE devices, but it is possible (at least according to my rusty memory of writing SCSI drivers in the early 90s) for the SCSI device to send a command block to the host to tell it that it's eject button has been pressed. You just need to bubble this up the driver chain. It would, however require some interlocking---no FTP sessions when you eject it, etc. If you'd like, I can dig out my SCSI command references and find the information. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message