Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:40:32 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: please do not close the drive tray automatically. (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <p05001905b67fd4c17c24@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3A5993B0.2262D70@newsguy.com> References: <200101080724.IAA14072@freebsd.dk> <3A5993B0.2262D70@newsguy.com>
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At 7:17 PM +0900 1/8/01, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > > It seems Matt Dillon wrote: > > > Umm. I'm going to be a pest: If the drive tray is open the > > > very LAST thing I want is for the device driver to try to > > > close it on me. > > > > Hmm, I think its a pretty nice idea actually, maybe we should call > > a vote for this feature ? Whats happening on the voting thing that > > was talked so much about ? > >I *HATE* it when Windows close the drive without me telling it to. >It's open for a good reason, goddamit! :-) If we were voting, I also vote that nothing should automatically close that drive tray. I have also had a number of occasions where windows or a Mac has closed the cd-tray on me when I really did NOT want it closed. In some cases, that resulted in some bad side-effects. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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