Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My users don't use the command line, they are fugitives from windows. They
> have common problems with the cdrom refusing to eject. It's hard to explain
> to a windows exile that the cd wont eject because there "Might be" a file
> open on it. In some other cases I've seen things get so confused that the CD
> returns an I/O error and no amount of eject commands will eject it. I've had
> to stop the volume manager, and eject it manually. You really cant expect a
> mere mortal to do these things, they need easy ways out of these things.
>
> I personally don't see why a read-only media can't be ejected like this,
> after
> all we live with floppies and other removable disks (eg flash drives) that
> Solaris just can't prevent you from removing. What makes CDs so different?
> .
> Besides, not being able to eject the CD with the eject button is
> counter-intuitive and in my book that just makes it plain wrong from a HMI
> design point of view.
Before MS Win did start to "support" this, it was the agreeed behavior:
- Apple _and_ Sun did have a Floppy drive _without_ eject button.
- CD-ROM drives did just copy this idea and allowed to make the
eject button to "diasppear" (being hidden).
If you run a command line, you call "eject cdrom".
If you use a gui, you just push the eject button on the gui.
So where is your problem?
Jörg
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