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SubjectRe: of removable devices
In <200002171519.KAA17792@renoir.op.net> Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net) wrote:
>>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 ?

ZIP drive does it. I bet JAZ does it as well.





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