Re: Floppy disk auto-mounting [was: Re: Volume handling proposal]

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:21, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mer 17/09/2003 à 17:56, Julien Olivier a écrit :
> > > This sounds good. I'd also suggest always showing the Floppy Disk Icon (as 
> > > oppose to only in Computer) on the desktop as well, for systems that still 
> > > have them. I recommend this mainly due to the sad fact that on pc's we can't 
> > > autodetect floppies, but we still want the floppy folder to be very easily 
> > > accessible and not hidden in a subfolder. 
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't it possible to have a daemon trying to mount the floppy every -
> > say - 3 seconds ? What would be the drawbacks of such a solution ?
> 
> Floppy LED will light up and down each time.. That is what magicdev is
> doing when you enable floppy support in it :))

That, and an unbearable sound too (at least on my laptop).

So let's just forget this stupid proposition :)

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> Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
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