Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: Of removable devices

# Re: Of removable devices

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:27:31 -0500 (EST)

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Balazic wrote:

> AmigaOS just polled the line to detect insertions and removals.

Wonderful. And how frequent the polling was?

> it would mount as another logical volume. Now when there was a need to
> access
> the first floppy, the OS popped up a dialog ( a requester, in amiga
> terminology :-)
> saying "Insert volume Linux_help_disk into any drive". When the user

Ahem... OK, does anyone else see something strange in words "OS popped up
a dialog"?

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