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In article <4128nd$rsp@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, dpg1001@cam.ac.uk (Duncan
Grisby) wrote:

> Why should I have to look in the _File_ menu to perform
> an operation on a disk?

Uhh, because disks are those things that store files and there isn't a
Disk menu.

> Given a novice user trying to eject a disk, which option
> are they most likely to choose, the one named "Eject" or
> the one named "Put Away"?

Obviously, to eject a disk you would use "Eject Disk" and your disk would
be ejected.  To put a disk away it first needs to be unmounted.  To put
the disk away you choose Put Away and it unmounts the disk for you.  (What
is also needs to do is to remove the disk from the drive and put it in my
floppy case.)

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No I don't think it is the best of features, or the most intuitive, but it
does have some logic behind it, which you have overlooked.  And no, I
don't think a novice even knows about the word unmount much less how it is
different from eject and that they want to unmount, not eject, the disk.