QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
| Title |
Having to restart drivers with removable media (ZIP). |
| Ref. No. |
QNX.000010363 |
| Category(ies) |
Filesystem |
| Issue |
We use QNX 4.24D with ZIP drive, in the sysinit we started Fatfsys &, because we use DOS floppy disks (it is mounted to /dos/a). It automaticaly mount DOS floppy without problems when we insert the media. However a problem is with the ZIP drive. When we want to exchange ZIP media we have to:
- slay Fatfsys
- mount -p /dev/fd0 -> it create /dev/fd0t6
- Fatfsys &
Is this aways nessisary each time we exchange the media? |
| Solution |
You will need to do the "mount -p /dev/fd0" and "umount /dev/fd0" around the insertion of such media in QNX4. But note that you do not have to slay/restart Fatfsys, it handles "mount -tdos /dev/fd0t6 /dos/b" and "umount /dos/b" requests. Or format the entire ZIP as a DOS volume without a partition, in which case it will behave as your /dos/a floppy does. |
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