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Article #2768Re: Determining disk devices
From: Bill Squier
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 03:01
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 03:01
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In article <572@shodha.dec.com> ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes: > >Something I thought of a while back was that a file requester could >*automatically* select a volume when it was inserted. The assumption >would be that if you just stuck it in, you probably want to access it. That's a bad idea on a multitasking machine. How would the process know that there wasn't some other application that you were inserting the disk for. Even worse, what if all applications followed this strategy? Imagine the disk contention as VirusX, ProcessA, ProcessB, ProcessC, and the validator all started reading the disk at once! Just having VirusX and the validator on my machine is bad enough. -- Bill Squier - Stevens Inst. of Tech | // "Only Amiga makes it possible" Bitnet: u93_wsquier@stevens | \X/ Internet: u93_wsquier@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu Temporary Inet (Please use until Jan. 13): ...uunet!tronsbox!dsoft!groo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!mcdchg!ddsw1!tronsbox!dsoft!groo From: groo@dsoft.UUCP (Bill Squier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Determining disk devices Keywords: Auto-disk reading, drive contention Message-ID: <485@dsoft.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 90 03:01:51 GMT References: <2924@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> <572@shodha.dec.com> Lines: 21