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SubjectRe: I know that I am doing bad things but...
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The thing is that it is so easy to do inadvertantly unless you are
paying close attention. An iconified shell over here or a electric
eyes over there.

-ben

> On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 01:49:12PM -0700, Ben Woodard wrote:
>
> > 1) insert card
> > 2) mount card "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/pccard"
> > 3) cd /mnt/pccard
> > 4) eject card
>
> I think you're essentially on your own if you eject a card with a
> mounted and active filesystem on it. I consider this to be abusive
> enough that fixing it isn't even on my to-do list. If anyone with
> more IDE interest wants to work on it, the issue boils down to making
> ide_unregister() gracefully deal with a device that is already long
> gone.
>
> -- Dave Hinds


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