On 16 Feb 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> khim@sch57.msk.ru (Khimenko Victor) writes:
>
> [...]
> > can cook up something (it was even done). It'll work sometimes. But
> > it'll ruin floppies from time to time. MS DOS doing it, Windows
> > doing it (there are no easy way to check if filesystem is clean and
> > you can eject floppy safely -- I've ruined my floppies pretty often
> > on old days when I've used them) but WHY THE HELL Linux should do
> > this is well ?
> [...]
>
> Users lived with this on the Amiga, Users lived with this on
> Windows. Just add a notification callback which is called when the
> kernel wants to sync the floppy, let your desktop add a handler which
> pops a requester "Please insert floppy "foobla" (as far as I know,
> there is a unique identifier for both ext2 and DOS) in Drive
> "/dev/fd0".
>
> Worked on the Amiga for me. Why not also on Linux? If there is no
> hander installed: Bad luck for the user. You asked for it.
>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <ioctls.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/fd.h>
int main(int args, char *argv[]);
int main(int args, char *argv[])
{
int fd;
if(args < 2)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Usage:\n%s <device>\n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR)) < 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Can't open %s\n", argv[1]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if(ioctl(fd, FDFLUSH, NULL) < 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Bad ioctl(FDFLUSH)\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
(void)close(fd);
return 0;
}
Now eject the floppy.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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