Messages in this thread | | | Date | 16 Feb 2000 18:33:39 +0100 | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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khim@sch57.msk.ru (Khimenko Victor) writes:
[...] > can cook up something (it was even done). It'll work sometimes. But > it'll ruin floppies from time to time. MS DOS doing it, Windows > doing it (there are no easy way to check if filesystem is clean and > you can eject floppy safely -- I've ruined my floppies pretty often > on old days when I've used them) but WHY THE HELL Linux should do > this is well ? [...]
Users lived with this on the Amiga, Users lived with this on Windows. Just add a notification callback which is called when the kernel wants to sync the floppy, let your desktop add a handler which pops a requester "Please insert floppy "foobla" (as far as I know, there is a unique identifier for both ext2 and DOS) in Drive "/dev/fd0".
Worked on the Amiga for me. Why not also on Linux? If there is no hander installed: Bad luck for the user. You asked for it.
Regards Henning
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