Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Of removable devices | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:51:28 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> said: > Dominik Kubla wrote: > > First: There is something called vold (SUN haters please keep quiet) > > for Linux too for management of removable media. No need to > > patch the kernel as far as i know (i don't use this stuff).
> I like the Sun method... at least a lot better than supermount. :) > > CD insert -> automount > CD eject -> command "eject cd"
OK. But AFAIR Sun just hangs when you insert an audio CD...
> Floppy insert -> 'volcheck' causes mount
And hangs hard (or screams at you) if it happens not to be formatted, or part of a multivolume tarball, or a non-MSDOS diskette. At least some versions of SunOS got wedged and the floppy drive became unusable until the next reboot.
> Floppy eject -> command "eject floppy" (and mechanically eject if > necessary)
Mechanically retaining the floppy is not there for PCs, sorry.
This idea sounds nice, but is _extremly_ hard to get to work right. How do you format a diskette with this kind of setup? Do a rawrite? Create/use multivolume tarballs? Handle different (perhaps even alien) filesystems, esp. one that is handled by userlevel programs (something like mtools(1))? -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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