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[ale] Are autoeject floppy drives available for linux??
- Subject: [ale] Are autoeject floppy drives available for linux??
- From: esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)
- Date: Wed Feb 25 14:02:14 2004
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> I got a semi-wild idea last night for my girlfriend's computer. Is there a
> source of autoeject floppy drives like what Apple used to provide with the
> mac, and are such drives supported under linux? Since I've been "mount"ing
> & "umount"ing filesystems since the mid-80s, using floppies my way drives
> her crazy. Crazy enough that she will not use them, but will wait until
> I'm around to do the job for her. Obviously, if I'm going to be successful
> in getting her fully to linux, I need to automate this usage.
You can get an ls120 drive. They handle the ls120 floppies as well as
standard ones and they auto eject with the eject command.
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Until later, Geoffrey Registered Linux User #108567
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