Re: Two annoying problems

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <5dq983$3ti@news.ysu.edu>, be404@yfn.ysu.edu says...


>re
>: Neither my ROM1 GS nor my IIe constantly polled using the UniDisk 3.5
>: controller card. This was true when running anything (including Catalyst

>Riddle me this then. How do you suppose the system can tell when you've put a
>3.5 disk in the drive? As you should know, you have to tell the system when

>Adalbert Goertz responds >>>>>>>>>>>>

>By doing it only ONCE and not CONSTANTLY.
>Prosel has a little sys file called scavenge.system (I believe) which
>disables disk drives with no disk after polling it once.

So how does it know when you've taken the disk *out*?
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