On 05/18/2009 12:32 PM, David Zeuthen wrote: [...]
What about drives in removable bays? What got me into this entire area was trying to figure out how to best handle the removal of a bay that has a disk in it. This bay (Lenovo Ultrabay) is actually quite nice as it has a pre-eject signal, which can be used to get the device ready for physical removal. However, in Fedora (and most other distributions) nothing gets hooked to this signal. I was hoping that there would be something built-in that would do an "eject", i.e., unmount all partitions and turn off the disk (and maybe the bay as well).It sounds interesting to support this kind of scenario but it has nothing to do with what we normally refer to as "eject" and I don't think it would be helpful to overload the term "eject" for this. I think it would be better to refer to this as "safely remove hardware" and - have a way in Nautilus (in the sidebar probably) to "safely remove" things like a drive bay. Probably another option in the context menu, maybe a "Stop" icon next to the "Eject" icon, I don't know. - hook up to whatever event we get and then unmount/eject the device as appropriate - maybe have an applet or notification icon for this If doing this work, we'd probably also want to cover things like docking stations since they need a similar treatment (and may include disks as well). David
Where would I go to be part of the discussion on how this should work? I routinely use quite a collection of hotpluggable disks, bays with disks in them, and docks (but none with disks in them).
peter
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