H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Followup to: <366C4F74.350D6D9D@chrysler.com> > By author: Dennis Grant <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > I was futzing with my system in user-space last night, and I wonder if > > there's a way to do something: > > > > One of the behaviours I really miss from my Amiga days is the ability to > > auto-detect and auto-mount removeable media filesystems. > > > > This is very hard (read: highly unsafe) to do on the PC, because the > hardware doesn't give a signal to the OS that something has been > inserted, and even worse -- that something is about to be removed. > Even IDE CD-ROMs with a soft button and motorized mechanisms, which > *should* be able to do this, don't give the software the neccessary > clues that something has been inserted, or that someone pressed the > button. > > -hpa
What about SCSI cdroms and zip drives?
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Brian Gerst
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