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