Michał Gołębiowski [2010-03-31 16:56 -0000]:
> Who in the world will want to actually "remove" the CD-ROM drive? AFAIK
> it would cause the drive to be unusable until a reboot so I cannot think
> who would really want anything like that...
Well, I do that, but indeed for CD-ROMs you can just yank the cable,
there's nothing to be written for them. It's a more interesting option
for iPods, card readers, etc. So for CD drives (which we can identify
reliably) we might remove the "Safe removal" option.
Martin
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Michał Gołębiowski [2010-03-31 16:56 -0000]:
> Who in the world will want to actually "remove" the CD-ROM drive? AFAIK
> it would cause the drive to be unusable until a reboot so I cannot think
> who would really want anything like that...
Well, I do that, but indeed for CD-ROMs you can just yank the cable,
there's nothing to be written for them. It's a more interesting option
for iPods, card readers, etc. So for CD drives (which we can identify
reliably) we might remove the "Safe removal" option.
Martin www.piware. de
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