Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:46:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: gpalmer@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd (and CD-ROM's) Message-ID: <199606172146.OAA08712@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9606152357.AA26925@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jun 15, 96 07:57:44 pm
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> > It would be nice to handle generic > > removable media actually, so you can run Iomega Zip & so on under > > AMD. > > It already does, perfectly well thank you very much, by not doing > anything at all. You write a map file describing what to mount and > where, and it does the appropriate thing. That is its only job. It > is not intended to sit there and buzz the drive every thirty seconds > to see if you've stuck something in there, like SGI's Workspace does; > if you want a program to do that, go write one. It doesn't belong in > amd. Agreed. Devices that allow you to change media, but which don't have media change indicators, make me want to hurl. (not to be confused with the "lignux" single server version of "hurd", also called "hurl"). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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