>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ethan> On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: Brian> [1] Dos/windows copes with this problem in a different (IMHO Brian> broken) way - it keeps track of which disk is inserted, and if Brian> it needs to read/write to another disk, it complains to the Brian> user to reinsert the original disk. Why is this mechanism Brian> broken? For starters: some games will automatically eject a Brian> CD-ROM and ask you to insert the next CD-ROM. For some reason, Brian> windows will often decide that it still needed the original Brian> CD-ROM, and ask you to reinsert it!!! It even goes as far as to Brian> suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I call Brian> "machine is smarter"!!! Ethan> I never noticed that back when i briefly tinkered with win95, Ethan> one thing I find interesting is windoze does NOT lock the cd Ethan> drawer closed when a CD is in use like GNU/Linux and MacOS do, Ethan> for example i insert a CD and run some program on it under Ethan> win95 then press the eject button and it spits out the CD and Ethan> windoze blue screened shortly thereafter. Ethan> I have never seen windoze ask for a device back again, i didn't Ethan> know it had such a function win* does not appear to really have Ethan> a concept of `mounted' filesystems as far as i could tell. Back in the sad, sad days when I was a Windoze programmer, we had to make the APPLICATION PROGRAM do that. I.e. check for the existence of the file D:\flagfile.000 and if not found, bitch at the user to insert the correct CDROM again. Really high tech. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
