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From: Richard Zidlicky 
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To: schilling@fokus.gmd.de
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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> 
> >Solaris vold? Thanks no, floppy access was so easy in SunOS before the 
> >days of the volume manager.
> 
> .... and it is even simpler since vold is present. Call volcheck to tell vold
> that the media changed or use a SCSI floppy which supports to tell the kernel
> that a media change did happen.

when it is properly configured which doesn't seem the common case.
More often than not, things like accessing raw floppy images turn
out to be a problem.

> >> -	The volume manager should have a documented interface that allows 
> >> 	programs like e.g. cdrecord to gain exclusive access to a CD drive.
> 
> >much simpler, cdrom driver needs an ioctl to claim exclusive use of
> >the device and cdrecord than needs to use that ioctl.
> 
> This will not work. What should happen when the drive is mounted?

block or return -EBUSY.

Richard
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