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- From: johnsonm@amcl6.StOlaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
- Message-ID: <JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 17:18:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.070318.2842@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA
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- In-Reply-To: dthumim@athena.mit.edu's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:03:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.070318.2842@athena.mit.edu> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
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- I have had problems before forgetting to unmount before removing a floppy
- disk, and the average user used to DOS would probably be even more likely
- to forget sometimes. Would it be possible to make it so that the light
- will stay on when a floppy disk is mounted, as a reminder to unmount before
- removing?
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- Yes, but it would keep your floppy disk spinning the whole time it was
- mounted. Not good. It is a simple hack, but it would wear out your
- floppy, since they can only do a certain number of rev's before they
- fail, and it's been my experience that they fail sooner than later... ;-)
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- michaelkjohnson
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