Re: umount - URGENT
*- On 7 Jan, Carl Fink wrote about "Re: umount - URGENT"
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:15PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote:
>> while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing
>> media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're certainly not
>> going to damage it by just pushing the button and taking the thing
>> out. Sure the os will complain, but you'll have the disk in your
>> hand.
>
> I've hever been able to open a CD drive without unmounting the volume -- the
> drawer won't open.
Along the same lines....this is the one mechanism of mac/sun/other(?)
floppies that I would like to see somehow on x86 machines. I would much
rather have a 'soft' eject button like on a cdrom or a software eject
like the mac/sun floppies rather than a mechanical eject like on the x86
floppies.
Does anybody know the fundemental reasons why the x86 platform has not
adopted such a setup?
Thanks,
Brian Servis
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