[H-GEN] Removeable Storage Devices

David Jericho davidj at in4free.com.au
Mon May 31 20:46:22 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Jericho <davidj at in4free.com.au>)

On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 02:40:48PM +0000, Marc Dergacz wrote:
> Here is what I am trying to do.  When a user puts
> in a disk, the drive is *not* locked but mounted
> automatically.  When the eject button is pressed,
> the disk is unmounted and the disk ejects.  Sort
> of the fashion that is used with PCMCIA devices.

That'd be a function of the kernel level driver, not the mount binaries.
For a real classic example of this, check out the Soundblaster CDROM driver
code. It's nice and big and commented right at the top.

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David Jericho
          

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