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Subject: Function 37
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 14:20:00 EST
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From:  Tony Li <Tli@usc-eclb>

    Date: Mon, 16 Jan 84 12:35:06 EST
    From: David Towson (CSD) <towson@amsaa>
    To:   Tli@usc-eclb
    cc:   Info-Cpm@brl-vgr
    Re:   Function 37
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    Received: from AMSAA by USC-ECLB; Mon 16 Jan 84 09:37:31-PST

    Tony - I was very surprised to see that you consider it the
    responsibility of
    the BIOS to detect a disk-change.  I should think that would be an OS
    chore.  Comment ?

Hi Dave,

As you must realize, detection of a disk-change is actually a hardware
function.  The little microswitch on the disk drive door is usually
the mechanism.  It is, of course, up to the BIOS to pass this along to
the OS.  

Cheers,
Tony ;-)