Re: [MiNT] floppy & syslogd

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:34:23 , "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:00:43 +0200, Peter Slegg
> <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >> > I just tried that gentoo version and it behaves the same as the
> >> sparemint one.
> >> >
> >> > I even tried killing syslogd and it wouldn't let me format a floppy
> >> when I
> >> > am sure it worked before.
> >> >
> >> What's the tool you are using to format the floppy ? Maybe it's that
> >> that has the problem.
> >
> > I tried mkfatfs again.
> >
> > bash-2.05a# mkfatfs a:
> > mkfatfs 0.26, 2002-09-19 for TOS and DOS FAT/FAT32-FS
> > Found XHDI level 1.30.
> >
> > mkfatfs: Can't lock A:
> >
> > and even after I killed syslogd it is till locked.
>
> But mkfatfs works before syslogd is started? Dlock() will tell you which
> process holds a lock on the floppy. Maybe you can try the following little
> program:
>
> #include <tos.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void maint(void)
> {
>     printf("Dlock() returns: %d\n", Dlock(3, 0));
> }
>
> This is from memory, so I can't guarantee that it compiles ;) But the idea
> is that Dlock() returns the PID of the process that locks drive 0 (A) if
> it's already locked.
>
> Jo Even
>
>

I need to find tos.h from somewhere.

Peter