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From: arnouilj@oahu.esiee.fr (Jean-Claude Arnouil)
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Subject: Floppy access locks the device
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 17:12:33 +0100
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Hello,
I have some problems using the floppy drive on NetBSD 0.9.
When I do any access to the floppy device (/dev/fd0a) WITHOUT a floppy in
the drive, and kill the hanging process, the drive is then unavailable and I
need to reboot the PC.
Does there is any way to test the presence of the floppy without trying to
mount it ??
Does there is a workaround for this ???
Thanks for any suggestion (please reply also by email)
Jean-Claude
PS: I want be able to mount DOS 3"1/2 1.44 Mb disks.