Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:35:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount -o async on a news servre Message-ID: <199701131735.KAA27973@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701130015.KAA13172@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 13, 97 10:45:46 am
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> Actually, Terry is lying. Those boot messages come from a Jaz with no disk > inserted. Here's a Jaz with a disk in : Actually, J"org and I have collapsed two message threads into a single thread, seperated only by context. We did the same thing with the su/getusershell threads, too. The dmesg I gave was to complain about the driver attempting geometry recognition without media inserted. This is totally seperate from the other context of "it takes me a unnaceptably (to me) long time to actually umount when I umount immediately following the last close in a series of large writes". > > I'm afraid you gotta wait for SCSI-4 for this to happen. AFAIK, the > > drive doesn't start a transaction on the bus if you press the eject > > button, saying ``Terry wishes to eject my cartridge right now''. :-) > > So the system couldn't know, even at best willingness. > > Correct; if the drive is mounted, it will have been locked. There's no > way for a locked drive to singal its desire to be unlocked. How about "power cycling rapidly until someone notices the noise"? 8-) 8-). There's ways to do it; there's probably just no *good* way... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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