Re: of removable devices

J. Scott Kasten (jsk@titan.tetracon-eng.net)
Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:51:24 -0500

The majority of the other drive types, even the lowly
parallel Iomega 100, the kernel locks the disk in so that
physical removal is impossible while the disk is mounted.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:18:57AM -0500, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >RJ> Floppies are considered cheap throw-away items. You don't add non-trivial
> >RJ> exception handlers to the kernel to save 15 cents now and then.
> >
> >Floppies are cheap. DATA FILES on said floppies are DEFINITELY NOT cheap.
> >When "super-realiable" (and this is true if we'll compare it with Windows)
>
> More importantly, don't the same problems exist for Jaz drives and other
> high capacity removeable media ? Or is there provision in their h/w
> for async notification of a media change ?
>
> --p
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