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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Telling AmigaDOS to be quiet for a bit
Message-ID: <639@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 15:53:04 GMT
References: <952@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
Lines: 38

In article <952@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) writes:
>						....		Is
>there a way to tell AmigaDOS to ignore a particular drive for a while?
>For instance, DiskCopy does this, with those cute little DF1:BUSY things.


int DisableDevice (name)
char *name;
{
    auto LONG arg[1];
    register int result = 0;
    register struct MsgPort *task;
    extern void *DeviceProc ();

    if((task = (struct MsgPort *) DeviceProc (name)) != NULL) {
	arg[0] = 1;
	result = sendpkt (task, ACTION_INHIBIT, arg, 1);
    }
    return (result);
}

int EnableDevice (name)
char *name;
{
    auto LONG arg[1];
    register int result = 0;
    register struct MsgPort *task;
    extern void *DeviceProc ();

    if((task = (struct MsgPort *) DeviceProc (name)) != NULL) {
	arg[0] = 0;
	result = sendpkt (task, ACTION_INHIBIT, arg, 1);
    }
    return (result);
}
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