From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 9:40: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (207-44-235-154.CodeGen.COM [207.44.235.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7139737B68F; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (localhost.parag.codegen.com [127.0.0.1]) by pinhead.parag.codegen.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA57293; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: -e option to umount? In-Reply-To: Message from "Kenneth D. Merry" of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:28:27 MDT." <20000619012827.A75072@panzer.kdm.org> Organization: CodeGen, Inc. X-Image-URL: http://www.codegen.com/images/CG-logo-only.gif X-URL: http://www.codegen.com X-Face: =O'Kj74icvU|oS*<7gS/8'\Pbpm}okVj*@UC!IgkmZQAO!W[|iBiMs*|)n*`X ]pW%m>Oz_mK^Gdazsr.Z0/JsFS1uF8gBVIoChGwOy{EK=<6g?aHE`[\S]C]T0Wm Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:39:50 -0700 Message-ID: <57285.961432790@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> From: Parag Patel Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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