Re: Of removable devices

From: Towers, Tim (London) (ttowers@MLE.CO.UK)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 12:34:43 EST


Dear Stephen,

   In a perfect world people wouldn't remove
floppies until it was safe. I agree the amiga's
ability to "mount" more floppies than drives was
useful before hard disks but less so nowadays. I
suppose the closest equivalent now would be
CD or tape libraries.

   However, to protect users who have a
removable media removed whilst writes are occurring -
Is there a way of remembering unwritten data
and requeueing it if a semi-written media
is placed back in.

   If the data were retained for 5 minutes
or until a different disk were inserted (check
for fs-ID).

   Hmmm, it doesn't sound like a trivial amount
of work - maybe user education is easier.

   Tim

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