Respuesta: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems

[edwinculp]

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De: Julian Stacey <jhs at berklix.org>
Fecha: Miércoles, Septiembre 29, 2004 4:34 am
Asunto: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems

> Very telling mail that. Hopefully someone may find time to solve it.

Yes, I agree, basically because Micro$oft has users accustomed to transparently access and removal of floppies and cd's, if not my icons wouldn't look like a hack.

> 
> What's a PITA by the way ?
Pain in the ass :)

Have a great day,

ed
> 
> Reference:
> > From:        	edwinculp <edwinculp at prodigy.net.mx> 
> > Date:        	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:56:17 -0500 
> > Message-id:	<1b79851b2436.1b24361b7985 at prodigy.net.mx> 
> 
> edwinculp wrote:
> > Quoting Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr>:
> > 
> > > Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > >> One possibility would be to add a facility to mark all the 
> data for
> > >> a certain device to be non-critical so it will throw it away 
> when it
> > >> tries to flush it and fails instead of panicing.
> > >
> > > That (and a message in syslog) would be just fine. ("Windows 
> does it, so
> > > it's normal".) I know (and I think other USB drive users know 
> too) that
> > > I need to wait for the little LED on the device to stop 
> blinking before
> > > unplugging it.
> > >
> > > IIRC, Windows mounts removable drives with write caching 
> disabled, so it
> > > should probably be the same in FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Would it not be a good idea to do something like this for cd's 
> and floppies?
> > 
> > I'm substituting FreeBSD for windows in some internet cafes.  Not 
> automatical> ly recovering from unmounted cd's, floppies and 
> usbdev's, is probably the big
> > gest PITA that I've found and haven't been able to solve cleanly. 
> I've had t
> > o put icons on the kde-desktop for accessing and removing them 
> that many just
> >  ignore.  This is also the case in a corporate environment where 
> I have had t
> > he same problem but they are a little better at using the
> > icon because it is their pc that crashes :)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > ed
> > 
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