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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


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