Re: Floppy handling

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 03:45:20 EST


On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Helge Hafting wrote:

> risk of an impatient user ejecting. "My cp command finished, and the
> light
> turned off. Why did it mess up on eject? what is this umount thingy?"

"Something you should do if you don't want problems like that. Here,
point'n'drool on that button when you want to take the floppy out. And
this one is for CD, BTW - it will even eject the thing."

> >> Better hardware (with locked eject) is nice, this is for those
> >> with plain pc floppies.
> >>
> >? So are all the ideas pitched so far.
> No, some people suggest "lock the drive". Doable on some cdroms
> and mac floppies, but not a general solution.

No, but "get the fscking clue" is.

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