From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 07:43:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16404 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16399 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:42:55 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA03298; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:42:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:42:52 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: next stages in devfs References: Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Apr 1998 16:42:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: Julian Elischer's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:24:00 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes: > Maybe FreeBSD could do what some other vendors do and have a constant > probe (non activating) going on all detected drives (once per few seconds) > I know some people hate the idea but it is one solution. Sign me up as one of the haters. As Robert says, there is a simple solution for (newer-than-AT) floppy drives; as for CD-ROMS, LS120 and friends, they're all lockable AFAIK. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message