| From: | Ilkka Lehtoranta |
| Date: | 07 Jun 2000 at 10:24:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Waiting for disk activity to finish. |
Hello Francis
On 07-Kes-00, you wrote:
FL> The main reason I want check for the end of disk
FL> activity, as I'm sure you will have realised, is to be
FL> sure that you don't reboot while the Amiga is still
FL> writing to the device.
Btw. you can try inhibit disk devices (send ACTION_INHIBIT to
device's message port) before reboot.
When the disk is inhibited succesfully OS can't access the disk anymore.
On the other hand if inhibit fails the disk is very likely busy.
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