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ljones · Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 47

I wonder if this program would be of any use to help auto-mount cdrom drives in puppy? I just spotted it on freshmeat Smile

http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoejectcdrom/?branch_id=59003&release_id=200107
http://psydev.sourceforge.net/new/auto-eject-cdrom/

I've also compiled it, stripped and UPX'd it (and attached here) to make it smaller (though it was only about 16K to start off, but now it's ~4K - the same amount of memory as 4 ZX81s Laughing

).

ljones

EarlSmith · Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2005, 23:29 Post subject:

Since you remember z81s, do you also remember the vic20. I owned both and they met the same fate. Both were placed on the floor and jumped up and down on until they were dead. Then more jumping until they really, really were dead! Twisted Evil

I must have wasted hundreds of hours on those two machines.
Then I got a c64 - Very Happy

- , and I still have it. At the time, a really good computer.

nduanetesh · Ultra Super-stud Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 168

I tried this little proggie on my laptop, and it did automount CDroms. Pretty cool. What was uncool, though, is that it would not unmount then when I pushed the drive's eject button. So, I had to manually unmount the CD and then eject the disc. I don't know if my lappy uses some nonstandard "eject" protocol, or if it was actually a problem with the program. And I haven't had a chance to test it out on my other computer...

But, it looks like it would be good. I know a lot of people have been asking about automounting drives...

ND

Flash · Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 15:59 Post subject:

That's the thing about mounting a CD: you can't eject it until it is unmounted. Presumably there is some housekeeping that the OS must do to properly unmount a filesystem, which ejecting a mounted CD would screw up...

If anyone finds a better explanation, I'd be happy to see it. Smile

Ian · Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 17:11 Post subject:

It would be like ejjecting a floppy part way through a file transfer, same result.

nduanetesh · Ultra Super-stud Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 168

but the point of this little program is that it's supposed to notice you hit the "eject" button, unmount the CD and then spit it out. From the website:

Auto-eject-cdrom is a very small C application that handles CD-ROM events in Linux. If new media is inserted in a CD-ROM drive, it is automatically mounted based on a matching entry in /etc/fstab. If a CD-ROM is mounted and the eject button is pressed, the filesystem is umounted and ejected. This allows for the same basic functionality Windows allows with the CD-ROM eject button.

So...yes, I realize that a CD is supposed to be unmounted before it can be ejected, but with this program it's supposed to happen automagically. And at least in the case of my laptop, it doesn't.

ND

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

you can mount and unmount the cd drive by holding the shift key and clicking the cdrom folder (in rox)

this is not mounting automatically, of course

the first distro i got to work with my hardware was Mandrake ... i quickly learned to hate automounting and always disabled it

i also remember how searching for files in Konqueror would fill up my ram and swap, slowing down the computer so much that i had to hit the reset button on the tower to be able to reboot ... locate or find worked with no problems

Bruce B · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 02:35 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 05:05 Post subject:

Flash · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 15:57 Post subject:

I agree. MUT is a great improvement. It at least gives the impression of intimate control of the computer, which is something I have always wanted but haven't felt with any other OS. The difference between a computer with Windows or Mandriva, and a computer with 1.0.4 Puppy with MUT, is like the difference between riding in a bus or driving a sports car.

JohnMurga · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 16:10 Post subject:

Hopefully I'll even get to try it tonight Wink

Cheers
JohnM

Bruce B · Posted: Thu 21 Jul 2005, 17:16 Post subject: