On Wed, 23 May 2012, Russ Dill wrote: > Media that can physically eject is not the only media that is marked > removable and can accept an eject command. Perhaps so. But devices that describe themselves as removable and yet _can't_ eject their media, physically or otherwise, are in error. > And you mention 'what the > user really wants'. If a very popular OS is sending 'eject' to removable > media when the user instructs it to unmount, I'm pretty sure the user > still wants it to function when they unplug the device and then go plug > it in somewhere else. How can the user expect a drive to work when it doesn't have any media? When your USB ZIP drive spits out its cartridge, and then you go plug the drive into another computer but don't insert a new cartridge, do you expect it to function? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
