Re: Of removable devices

From: Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 13:20:49 EST


David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>:
>The one that ejected the medium , obviously.
> echo "Put that back in , son !" > /dev/console
>
>satisfied ?

The person who ejected the media manually may not be logged in. There is no
way to know who did that - especially when some environments put the host
in one room, and all displays/audio signals in another.

>Or just make the drive "buzz" like I described in my other mail.
>( by turning the motor on and off , and moving the head around )

ONLY if the media is fully extracted... Partially removed media could
destroy the heads (especially floppys - did that once...) Moving heads
can make it difficult to insert the media too.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
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