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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:39:50 -0700
From:      Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: -e option to umount? 
Message-ID:  <57285.961432790@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>  of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:28:27 MDT." <20000619012827.A75072@panzer.kdm.org> 

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:28:27 MDT, "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
>
>In any case, if an error were returned, the only way you could get that
>to work would be to have the media daemon continually ping the drive with
>the mounted media, and then unmount it in response to the (likely) unit
>attention condition.

This is how the MacOS does it, at least prior to MacOS X.  If the CD-ROM
is external and powered-down after the MacOS boots, the Mac then hangs
periodically trying to ping it.  Really screws up performance. :)


	-- Parag Patel


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