Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:48:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <20010114104838.W66238@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3A604F74.880F6E07@camtech.net.au>; from thyerm@camtech.net.au on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:22:04PM %2B1030 References: <20010107115456.S1611@puck.firepipe.net> <200101071658.RAA05273@freebsd.dk> <20010108092141.L52707@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200101080708.f0878ho23507@earth.backplane.com> <3A604F74.880F6E07@camtech.net.au>
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On Saturday, 13 January 2001 at 23:22:04 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote: > 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. A >> windows box *destroyed* a CD (by scratching the hell out of it) that I > > User error. > > At the time you knew that Windows(tm) behaved in that manner. > > If you cared about the data on that CD (i.e. it could not have been > replaced) you would not have acted so rashly. Now this is ridiculous. It sounds like the typical things you hear of from Microsoft support personnel. It wouldn't have helped me, for example, because I've only just discovered this behaviour. Maybe this was the way Matt discovered it. Of course, you *could* say: If you had cared about the data on your machine, you would not have used "Windows". Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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