Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:54:47 +0200 (CEST) | From | Riccardo Facchetti <> | Subject | Re: [patch] scsi-removeable devices |
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Michael Vogt wrote:
> This is a small patch I made for 2.3.7 (it apply fine to 2.3.10). It adds a > generic IOCTL to the scsi layer that supports ejecting removable media like > mo or scsi-zip. > "eject /dev/sdd" works fine for me and my Fujitsu mo drive. > It also cleans up sd_init_onedisk() when it try to scan a drive without medium > in it.
I second this patch.
1) Never reading capacity from a non-present removable media can be only good. 2) Support ejecting of removable media is a good thing to have in the kernel (IDE cdrom alredy have).
Ciao, Riccardo.
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