From: dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) Subject: Leaving light on mounted removable devices Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:03:18 GMT
I saw Rainer Kirsch's post about the SyQuest removable drive, in which he
mentioned that the light stays on while the disk is mounted, so that you
won't take it out while it's mounted by accedent. This seems to me like
a great idea!
I have had problems before forgetting to unmount before removing a floppy
disk, and the average user used to DOS would probably be even more likely
to forget sometimes. Would it be possible to make it so that the light
will stay on when a floppy disk is mounted, as a reminder to unmount before
removing?
This would probably be more difficult, but it would also be useful if the
disk light stayed on from when a write begins until it's sync'd, for
example when tarring to a floppy, if you take it out after the tar finishes
and the light goes out, the data won't be there until the sync! I realize
that this might not be simple to implement, but I think it would make life
easier for all linux users.
-- |)aniel Thumim
dthumim@athena.mit.edu