On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:21:14AM -0600, jeffslists wrote:
In windows or any other sane desktop operating system if I want to open my cd-rom drive I press a button and it always opens, unless I'm burning a cd, and even then getting the drive to open is no problem.
Yeah, I read some similar carping from some Windows fans when this subject came up on another list.
I then went to see what would happen if one ejects a piece of removable media from Windows and file on that piece of media is still being used. For instance, I put a file on a floppy disk. I opened the file, then ejected the floppy. Now, guess what happens if I edit the file and then hit "Save"? It asks me to re-insert the floppy.
Which is fine, unless in the intervening time I went home, took the floppy, and left it there. Or, if I FedEx'ed the floppy to Singapore. Oops. Or if it was someone else's floppy, and someone else's file that I ejected. Or, as has been mentioned, if some other process was using the file.
Most of the time, you're OK to just pull out a USB keychain drive from a Windows box, though of course Windows will (rightly so) complain that you can screw things up that way. And every once in a while, that does happen, and you lose your files or lock up the system.
I'll bet you do all your work as root, because it's simpler. No? If not, why not?