Re: Floppy handling

From: Francis Galiegue (fg@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 06:41:56 EST

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> (b) for floppies locked disk == keep the light on

Is this at all possible without making the motor spin/polling the drive at
regular intervals?

-- fg

"You can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish" (HP/UX' tunefs manpage)

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