Re: Floppy disk access in Gnome.

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 24 Oct 2001, George Farris wrote:

[snip]

> Let me tell you that nobody and I MEAN NOBODY wants to mount and unmount
> the floppy disk.  Students store their work on floppy and transport it
> back and forth between home and the campus and they don't want to mount
> and unmount floppies.  Now many of you might say "but it's so simple". 
> STOP, they don't want to hear it.  It's just one more change from the
> "norm" as they see it, sure they can use openoffice and gnumeric because
> they are fairly familiar with these applications but ask them to mount a
> floppy, forget it.  If you couldn't get the diskette out without
> un-mounting it maybe, but not the way the drives are designed and built
> right now.
> 
> We need to fix this, supermount looked like it might be the way to go
> but I haven't seen it be reliable under heavy use.  What can we do?
> 

You don't have to mount floppies - just use tar with the raw device
(/dev/rfloppy or whatever). No need to mount the floppy at all. 

Have you considered that this is gnome, not linux kernel or automountr
project?

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	Sander

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