Re: Of removable devices

Francis GALIEGUE (francis@mandrakesoft.com)
19 Feb 2000 18:01:15 +0100


Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> writes:

>
> I've always thought the floppy disk drive had a bad design flaw. It should
> have had the ability to lock the drive (much like CD-ROMs do) to prevent
> the user from ejecting when not flushed. It might have saved much grief
> for millions of humans over the last 20 years!
>

Go tell that to IBM... AHwell, you should've told them 20 years ago :)

> Does the LS120 floppy drive locks the drive?
>

Yup, it's an IDE floppy, and as such has all the necessary
commands. Just like IDE ZIP drives.

-- 
fg

# rm *;o o: command not found

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