Re: tlug: Floppy mounts

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Howard Abbey wrote:

> Frank Bennett wrote:
> > For these student terminals, I want kids to be able to plug DOS
> > or VFAT floppy disks into them with abandon, and have the OS take
> > care of mounting and unmounting them.  
> 
> Well, it's not been utterly solved, but probably the best
> solution (as I was convinced by another TLUGer on this list
> a while ago) is to use an automount daemon (like autofs) to
> automatically detect the disk type.  With a really short 
> expiration time (perhaps the minimum), it might work without 
> too much problems.  I am not sure if anything will gracefully handle 
> popping out a drive while it is still mounted.  You might need
> to make an unmount icon or something on the screen for students
> to push before ejecting the floppy.
> 
> I'm curious how well it'll work.  If you run any tests, let us know.

How does DOS handle this?  I'm assuming that the answer is 'poorly', but
it does seem to handle floppies somewhat better than Linux (then again, it
doesn't need to worry about multiple FS types, etc...).

Man, i wish whoever designed the PC floppy drive had put in an eject
motor/locking mechanism..

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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