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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:49:42 -0500
From:      edwinculp <edwinculp@prodigy.net.mx>
To:        Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Respuesta: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems
Message-ID:  <214f0220df6a.20df6a214f02@prodigy.net.mx>

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----- Mensaje original -----
De=3A Julian Stacey =3Cjhs=40berklix=2Eorg=3E
Fecha=3A Mi=E9rcoles=2C Septiembre 29=2C 2004 4=3A34 am
Asunto=3A Re=3A USB memory stick hotswap problems

=3E Very telling mail that=2E Hopefully someone may find time to solve it=
=2E

Yes=2C I agree=2C basically because Micro=24oft has users accustomed to t=
ransparently access and removal of floppies and cd=27s=2C if not my icons=
 wouldn=27t look like a hack=2E

=3E =

=3E What=27s a PITA by the way =3F
Pain in the ass =3A)

Have a great day=2C

ed
=3E =

=3E Reference=3A
=3E =3E From=3A        	edwinculp =3Cedwinculp=40prodigy=2Enet=2Emx=3E =

=3E =3E Date=3A        	Mon=2C 27 Sep 2004 10=3A56=3A17 -0500 =

=3E =3E Message-id=3A	=3C1b79851b2436=2E1b24361b7985=40prodigy=2Enet=2Emx=
=3E =

=3E =

=3E edwinculp wrote=3A
=3E =3E Quoting Ivan Voras =3Civoras=40fer=2Ehr=3E=3A
=3E =3E =

=3E =3E =3E Daniel O=27Connor wrote=3A
=3E =3E =3E=3E One possibility would be to add a facility to mark all the=
 =

=3E data for
=3E =3E =3E=3E a certain device to be non-critical so it will throw it aw=
ay =

=3E when it
=3E =3E =3E=3E tries to flush it and fails instead of panicing=2E
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E That (and a message in syslog) would be just fine=2E (=22Wind=
ows =

=3E does it=2C so
=3E =3E =3E it=27s normal=22=2E) I know (and I think other USB drive user=
s know =

=3E too) that
=3E =3E =3E I need to wait for the little LED on the device to stop =

=3E blinking before
=3E =3E =3E unplugging it=2E
=3E =3E =3E
=3E =3E =3E IIRC=2C Windows mounts removable drives with write caching =

=3E disabled=2C so it
=3E =3E =3E should probably be the same in FreeBSD=2E
=3E =3E =

=3E =3E Would it not be a good idea to do something like this for cd=27s =

=3E and floppies=3F
=3E =3E =

=3E =3E I=27m substituting FreeBSD for windows in some internet cafes=2E =
 Not =

=3E automatical=3E ly recovering from unmounted cd=27s=2C floppies and =

=3E usbdev=27s=2C is probably the big
=3E =3E gest PITA that I=27ve found and haven=27t been able to solve clea=
nly=2E =

=3E I=27ve had t
=3E =3E o put icons on the kde-desktop for accessing and removing them =

=3E that many just
=3E =3E  ignore=2E  This is also the case in a corporate environment wher=
e =

=3E I have had t
=3E =3E he same problem but they are a little better at using the
=3E =3E icon because it is their pc that crashes =3A)
=3E =3E =

=3E =3E Thanks=2C
=3E =3E =

=3E =3E ed
=3E =3E =

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