RE: [MiNT] getmntent

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Petr Stehlik
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 12:22 PM
> Cc: mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] getmntent
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > Detecting whether a medium is there will always require drive
> accesses which
> > might be slow when nothing is in.
>
> Is there any way how to make the check of empty drive faster? BTW I
> thought all drives with removable medias contain a hardware detection that
> allow them to report "empty" state even without seeking with the heads for
> several seconds. Any chance our harddisk drivers wouldn't use such
> information?

No, they don't. At least not in general.

> > Diagnostic XHDI messages shouldn't appear in a production binary...
>
> So HDDRIVER 7.12 contains diagnostic informations? I'll ask Uwe about it.
>
> Thanks.

Maybe MiNT is emitting the warning?