Re: CD ROM and Floppy icons won't disappear

[Daniel Wood <daniel cs washington edu>]

I can't imagine that floppy speed is a big issue.  It's just such a
rarely used device (and slow and small too boot) that speed of access
is sort of irrelevant.

Anyway, I think that automounting and unmounting CDs seems like a nice
idea, because it's what you want 95% of the time.  I don't really want
to get rid of this feature, I just don't want the *icons* to show up
after magicdev goes ahead and mounts my CD.  It looks like I have to
find something else (or just mount by hand), though, because it seems
that magicdev's interface is basically: install and uninstall.



> In DOS/Windows you don't need to mount and unmount floppies because
> all the floppy I/O is synchronous and slower than a frozen cow rolling
> down a hill. Oh, and of course floppy I/O brings the rest of the
> system to a screeching halt (try to format a floppy and do anything
> meaningful at the same time in Windows 9x).

> Synchronous floppy I/O is evil, evil, evil. DOS, Windows and mtools
> should be taken out and shot.