Re: CD ROM and Floppy icons won't disappear

[Warren Young <tangent cyberport com>]

Daniel Wood wrote:
> 
> 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.

Au contraire.  Try mounting a floppy and saying:

	cd /sbin
	cp ifconfig /mnt/floppy
	cp e2fsck /mnt/floppy
	cp sash /mnt/floppy
	umount /mnt/floppy

The system will return immediately from all the commands except the last
one.  Meanwhile, it copies the files to the floppy in the background,
allowing you to work on other things.  This is important for the very
reason you mentioned: floppies are slow.

The real problem was stated elsewhere in this thread: PC floppy drives
don't have insert notification.  Aside from polling the drive
periodically, Linux cannot know that a floppy was inserted in the drive,
so they can't automount it like a CD.
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