ide-cs drive detection for media check is broken

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:34 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Actually all IDE drives should have media check disabled per default
> except for optical drives. One way to check for this without opening the
> device (which causes the infinite loop) is to check
> if /proc/ide/hd?/media says cdrom. You have a patch handy?
> 

We should also check the /sys/block/hd?/removable file. If it's 0 then
we can probe for filesystems (like on fixed disks), otherwise we
shouldn't except if it's a CDROM.

Cheers,
David


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