Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: of removable devices | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:18:57 -0500 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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>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 ?
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