RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 11:43 AM
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> > a) If the media change is not detected automatically, something
> is broken.
>
> Well, it _is_ broken here.  Especially, when changing from floppy A
> to B on a single-drive system, back and forth, if VFAT is enabled on
> only one of the drives.  That kills Thing (from desktop) and boots
> your out of Bash (from CLI).
>
> > b) Even in that case, you can do the same thing in Bash (with the right
> > tool), and then it's still not worse than under Unix.
>
> But why should we have to force media-change detection, while
> other OS apparently handle it smoothly and transparently?

That's what I said. You shouldn't have to. But this doesn't have anything to
do with the question of mounting.