Re: CD-ROM support question.

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:30:42 -0300

Isaac Connor <iconnor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> said:
> Yeah, this should also happen in some way for floppies...or at least it
> would be really nice to have for floppies..., and any other removable
> media..

What you describe is Sun's vold(8), whose guts I throroughly hate... It's
hard to handle stuff like inserting a DOS or ext2 floppy (one after the
other :-), think about a plain tar or cp to the diskette. Oh, and there
are weird floppy formats (higer-density, anyone?) and then broken/not
formatted ones. And there are those weird floppy drives that are really
tapes, or that handle either 1Gb "floppies" or regular ones.

Won't work right enough without a _really_ massive effort.

-- 
Dr. Horst H. von Brand                       mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
Departamento de Informatica                     Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria              +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile                Fax:  +56 32 797513