Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:17:20 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        =?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:  <3A5993B0.2262D70@newsguy.com>
References:  <200101080724.IAA14072@freebsd.dk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.  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 *HATE* it when Windows close the drive without me telling it to. It's
open for a good reason, goddamit! :-)

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@a.crazy.bsdconspiracy.net

		"There is no spoon." -- Kiki


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3A5993B0.2262D70>