[ale] Are autoeject floppy drives available for linux??

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Feb 25 14:02:14 EST 2004


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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