On 6/15/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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) -- imalone
