Re: [MiNT] floppy & syslogd

["Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>]

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