On 6/15/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Alan M. Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:33, nigel henry wrote:
>
>>Well I can't say that I'm too happy about the way that FC5 is handling
>>removable devices. Each time I load a CDROM. or a DVDROM, I get boxes
>>opening, winging about what do I want to do with it. Just tried a floppy, and
>>I get absolutely nothing.
>
>
> What, in your estimation, would be the correct behavior? And what other
> OS and operating environment gets this behavior right?
All MicroSoft products handle floppies better than all versions
of Linux.
And the last time I used a Mac with a floppy drive it had the correct
behaviour (detected and appeared on the desktop). That would be a
decade ago...
(That said, it also had the incorrect behaviour that if the disk got
stuck in the drive it was possibly an RMA)
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imalone