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Yeah I remember being confused by the drag-to-trash metaphor too, except in my case we were still using floppy disks and I thought "are you sure this won't eras
by drumdance 11y ago
Yeah I remember being confused by the drag-to-trash metaphor too, except in my case we were still using floppy disks and I thought "are you sure this won't erase my term paper?"
- frik 11y agoFloppy drives had a mechanical eject push-button and there was no unix-style "mount" afaik.
- Drdrdrq 11y agoOn unix at least (linux and aix) there was mount / umount of a floppy, which should always be done before removing it from the slot. Linux couldn't force you though, but it was good practice.
- digi_owl 11y agoDepends, you could mount it with the sync option. This would make all writes happen right away. Not recommended on FAT formated flash devices btw, as it will cause massive amounts of writes to the table.
- afandian 11y agoI don't know which floppy drives you used, but the ones I did had no push-button. It was software only. I skimmed through the models in Wikipedia and couldn't see any with manual ejects. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Macintosh_Performa_5200.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Macintos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Macintosh_Performa_6300.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Macintos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Macintosh_LC_630.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Macintos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Macintosh_quadra_605_warm.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Macintos... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Power_Macintosh_8500_150.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Power_Ma...
- digi_owl 11y agoI don't think he was thinking about Mac. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Floppy_Disk_Drive_SDF-321B.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Floppy_D...
- drumdance 11y agoTo my knowledge the Mac has never had an (easily usable) eject button. I remember it being really annoying because a couple times I had to get the disk out and the computer wasn't working, so I had to push one end of a paper clip into a tiny hole next to the drive.