Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: forcing media change Message-ID: <28955@cs.yale.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 02:38:15 GMT References: <931630@fiction> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu In article <931630@fiction> Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org writes: >Well, I *think* there's a method to set the media change state via a >Rwabs() call with strange parameters. At the moment I'm not quite sure >whether this is just a hack in some hard disk drivers or it's a function >supported by the standard bios routines. Does someone know more 'bout it? There is in the floppy driver, but I believe it is "undocumented", so you shouldn't use it. The official way of forcing media change is the one you uncovered. >Yes ... but I don't think that an application should *expect* this be- >haviour. Furthermore, we didn't expect such reactions from the DeskTop >since all the other functions of this built-in application are on the >gemdos level or higher. There is no call of bios in it, so I think this >is stylistically not very nice. I concede the point. Gemdos ought to provide functions to deal explicitly with media change. -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================