Subject: Re: floppy and cd-rom access and cd-rw drive
To: Dean Huxley <dean@huxley.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/10/1999 21:23:32
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:00:11PM -0700, Dean Huxley wrote:
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> That handles the automatic mount, but what about the automatic umount when
> the media is replaced? I thought amd only unmounted after a certain amount
> of idle time... If you had to go through a bunch of CD's, would amd be
> smart enough to know when you replaced the media? I don't have a CDROM
> currently installed to try this, but I'm curious to know if amd handles
> media changes.
Not at all. The trick is to make the idle timeout fast enough.
-is