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I removed my floppy drive from the system. Still the open() system call returns the descriptor. Even the ioctl like GETDRVTYPE etc are going through fine.
I need to find whether the drive is connected to the system or not.
I think the kernel only cares if there is a floppy _controller_ installed, until you actually try to access the media. I think that even disabling the floppy controller in the bios may not prevent the kernel from detecting and enabling the floppy controller.
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