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SubjectRe: [patch] scsi-removeable devices
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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