Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 03:44:46 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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: <200101080844.f088ilU41376@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:26:11 %2B1030." <20010108182611.C83353@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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. Therefore, I'd like to see this as a sysctl, disabled by default because that would be POLA. It would be least astonishing because, of course, FreeBSD has never done this before. The major question is what would happen with VMware. I'd not like to have VMware do strange things with me, like close my tray while I'm trying to put in a disc, because I think it does a sort of polling. Because of the danger of this kind of thing, I think it should probably be off by default, too. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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