Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:26:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, 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: <20010108182611.C83353@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200101080724.IAA14072@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:24:20AM %2B0100 References: <200101080708.f0878ho23507@earth.backplane.com> <200101080724.IAA14072@freebsd.dk>
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On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 8:24:20 +0100, Søren 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. A >> windows box *destroyed* a CD (by scratching the hell out of it) that I >> was trying to insert into the machine by closing the drive tray before >> I had the CD completely seated. I do not want the same to happen under >> FreeBSD just because some program (say, like sysinstall) tries to open >> the CD device. > > 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 don't think we need to vote on it, but if others do, I don't have a problem. It seems that a sysctl would do the job nicely in this case, if you find anybody else who wants the feature. 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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