Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:01:59 -0800 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: please do not close the drive tray automatically. (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <3A598207.61D5AB11@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010107115456.S1611@puck.firepipe.net> <200101071658.RAA05273@freebsd.dk> <20010108092141.L52707@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200101080708.f0878ho23507@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> Umm. I'm going to be a pest: If the drive tray is open the very LAST
> thing I want is for the device driver to try to close it on me. A
> windows box *destroyed* a CD (by scratching the hell out of it) that I
> was trying to insert into the machine by closing the drive tray before
> I had the CD completely seated. I do not want the same to happen under
> FreeBSD just because some program (say, like sysinstall) tries to open
> the CD device.
I agree with Matt on this one. I don't want the thing closing unless I
tell it to.
Doug
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