Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:42:01 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: of removable devices |
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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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