From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 20:57:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA07502 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 20:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA07497 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 20:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0uMnzi-0008vfC; Thu, 23 May 96 20:56 PDT Message-Id: From: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) Subject: IDE CDROMs: not ALL bad... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 20:56:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Okay, this isn't actually a question; so shoot me...] With all the complaining about IDE CDROMs that's been going on, I thought I'd relate my highly positive experience with mine. I have a Mitsumi FX400, and it's been completely trouble-free under 2.1R. But something surprised me tonight. I had the WC CD mounted, and installed a port. Some time later, I pushed the eject button, and nothing happened. It was still mounted, so it refused to eject it. Granted, the sudden disappearance of a read-only filesystem shouldn't be the cause of any major corruption, but I _liked_ the idea that it wanted me to nicely unmount it before letting me pop out the CD. Maybe I'm weird (well, maybe not _maybe_), but I thought this was a nice thing. Keep up the good work. --Gary Hanson