Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

[Brandon Fosdick <bfoz glue umd edu>]

LS-120 drives accept both the 120MB format and the old 3.5" formats and also
have auto-insert notification. If the mounting system were designed to use this
than we could easily have "put it in/yank it out" functionality. Of course that
only works for people with LS-120's, but hey, they're only US$60.

-Brandon

Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> 
> I must admit, I know very little about this relm, but I do know that
> dosemu handles disks like dos should (put it it/yank it out)
> 
> --ben
> 
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Michael Vanecek wrote:
> 
> > There is work continuing in that realm. I could've sworn I've seen an
> > automounter app in one of my bins. At least a few Window Maker dock-apps
> > are geared toward easily mounting and unmounting disks, and the last
> > GNOME I used had a panel-app you could use to mount/umount your drives.
> > However, the fact we are on PC's and using those drives, auto-detection
> > can be challenging. Macintoshes have a different floppy drive setup that
> > PC's could learn from, but that's unlikely, so the manual mount/unmount
> > will continue to be the norm, be it from the commandline, a GNOME Panel
> > app or a Dock-App. Actually, once you've done it a few times, other than
> > not being as convenient as simply popping in a disk and yanking it out,
> > the mount/umount procedure really isn't too much trouble. If the fs is
> > pretty much the same, you could write a couple of scripts for each
> > removeable device and run it to quickly mount/umount a drive, but you'd
> > only be saving a few keystrokes at best...
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Ben Frantzdale wrote:
> > >
> > > what with mounting/unmounting drives, I am wondering how people expect
> > > newbies to use removeable disks? As I see it, this is the major reason
> > > that my mom couldn't use Gnome/Linux. I think that for most things,
> > > window's way of dealing with disks makes a lot of sense if you don't
> > > understand what's going on underneith. To the user, the fact that the
> > > floppy/zip/cd is in the drive should mean that the computer sees it.
> > >
> > > with things like automount and "rescan mountable devices" it looks as
> > > though things arn't that easy yet.
> > >
> > > comments?
> > >
> > > --ben
> > >
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