> Anyway as for the "magic" eject button, there are some devices on some > other architecture that if you press an eject button, it signals the os > to do a "clean unmount" then eject the media when it receives a signal > from the os that the media can be safely ejected. I think this is what > you're looking for. There aren't a lot of devices like that in the x86, > unfortunately. ZIP drives have this kind of thing I believe under > Windows but this feature is not available on Linux because under Linux > the default behavior is to lock the media in the drive until you do an
There is such a thing as 'supermount' which originated as an addition to the Mandrake Linux kernel, and, a fork of it known as 'supermount-ng' [1]. Several distro kernels have now included this patch, which seems logical for a desktop distro. This kernel patch does what you want to do: detects if media is being ejected, and safely unmount the media first before actual ejection. Initial incarnations of supermount where infamous to be really buggy, but things have stabilized a bit now. If you don't believe me, try popping in a CDROM on any modern (9.1++) Mandrake distro, you will see that it will be immediately recognized on your desktop, and when you eject it there isn't any need to manual unmount the drive. [1] http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
