On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:19:51 +0200
Stefan Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Norberto Meijome schrieb:
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:38:14 +0200
> > "[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> As I mentioned earlier I remember it working during the 5.3 era on Stable,
> >> at
> >> some point it worked. I even remember removing my CD-Rom drive from my
> >> Thinkpad
> >> without running atacontrol detach. The system just took it and the drive
> >> just
> >> continued working after I put it back in.
> >
> > on 6.2-STABLE (of a few days ago), i have this happening a couple of times
> > with no adverse effect at all.
> > Burn DVD/Cd, when finished, hald detects the disk, mounts it, /dev/cd0 in
> > /media/whatever.
> >
> > i can eject the disk just fine (which in itself is weird, i think).... the
> > device is still there...
> > umount /dev/cd0
> >
> > works fine and off it goes. other than that, no, i havent tried to access
> > the device in question
>
> In that case the device has been mounted R/O before, and if
> you don't remove it in the middle of a transaction, there
> is nothing the kernel might want to do with the physical
> device to unmount it (and even within a transfer, this ought
> to be caught by the driver). For that reason I had suggested
> to have a soft-R/O mode for removable devices, which together
> with a very short flush delay might allow such a device to
> be mounted R/O "nearly all the time" (tm) ;-) This is not
> a perfect solution, but it is similar to the way USB sticks
> are used with Windows/XP: Wait a second or two and remove it.
> While not perfect this covers the case of MP3 players or
> digicams that are mounted as USB storage devices, and many
> other cases. To make this a perfect solution is much harder,
> but even a simple implementation would be a big step forward.
Yes, I agree it would be a good interim solution.
thx!
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