Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:03:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: 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: <20010109100321.I83353@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200101080844.f088ilU41376@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:44:46AM -0500 References: <grog@lemis.com> <200101080844.f088ilU41376@green.dyndns.org>
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On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 3:44:46 -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 8:24:20 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >>> It seems 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. >>> >>> Hmm, I think its a pretty nice idea actually, maybe we should call a >>> vote for this feature ? Whats happening on the voting thing that >>> was talked so much about ? >> >> I don't think we need to vote on it, but if others do, I don't have a >> problem. >> >> It seems that a sysctl would do the job nicely in this case, if you >> find anybody else who wants the feature. > > I want it, not because I forget to close the tray or anything, but because > I'd like open() to wait for the disc to come ready rather than just give me > errors. I don't like manually having to wait and try a command until the > drive succeeds. This is a separate issue. Yes, I'd like the open command to wait a little while if the drive isn't ready. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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