Re: Amelio's ouster

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Geoff Kaiser (SuperKais@MacConnect_REMOVE_THIS.com) wrote:

(among other things...)

: Macs know when a disk or volume is on the drive and when it's ejected
: (try looking at the contents of a floppy on Win95 and then eject the
: disk; the contents are still showing, even though the disk is gone.
: Won't happen on a Mac)

Stick a floppy into the Mac.  The disk mounts.
Select the floppy icon.
Press OA-E (Eject Disk).  The disk pops out.
But the contents of the disk still appear mounted on the desktop.  The
Mac, however, is smart enough to know that the disk isn't *really* there,
and will ask for it if it needs it.  This is why you should always
*unmount* your floppys when walking away from a public terminal.  Nothing
more annoyng than "Please insert the disk 'Joe's Stuff'." when Joe is long
gone...

(That works under GS/OS 6.0.1 as well, except that GS/OS is a lot more
tolerant of disks ejected but not dismounted than MacOS is)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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