Hard disk Manager 1.3

Hi Frank

I like what you have done.  Thanks for all your hard work.

One thing that has always seemed out of place to me when using the 
LVMGUI is to list the "Dummy" disks used as placeholders for removable

drives as free space.  This has confused many people over the years. 
Why not list anything that LVM recongnizes as 96 MB free space as a 
"Dummy Drive, removable drive placeholder, or something else instead of 
free space at the top of LVMGUI.

David Graser wrote:
> Hi Frank
> 
> I like what you have done.  Thanks for all your hard work.
> 
> One thing that has always seemed out of place to me when using the 
> LVMGUI is to list the "Dummy" disks used as placeholders for
removable 
> drives as free space.  This has confused many people over the years. Why 
> not list anything that LVM recongnizes as 96 MB free space as a "Dummy

> Drive, removable drive placeholder, or something else instead of free 
> space at the top of LVMGUI.
> 
> David

Or under the physical view, for "Status when the drive is selected, list 
it as "dummy drive" or "Removable drive Placeholder".

David Graser wrote:
> David Graser wrote:
> 
>> Hi Frank
>>
>> I like what you have done.  Thanks for all your hard work.
>>
>> One thing that has always seemed out of place to me when using the 
>> LVMGUI is to list the "Dummy" disks used as placeholders for
removable 
>> drives as free space.  This has confused many people over the years. 
>> Why not list anything that LVM recongnizes as 96 MB free space as a 
>> "Dummy Drive, removable drive placeholder, or something else
instead 
>> of free space at the top of LVMGUI.
>>
>> David
> 
> 
> Or under the physical view, for "Status when the drive is selected,
list 
> it as "dummy drive" or "Removable drive Placeholder".
> 
> David
Hi David,

I don't have tested removeable drives yet. I know there was something I 
forgot :-)
I will connect my old Iomega Zip in a couple of days to see what's going on.
So maybe we will have something new for the next release.

Have a nice screen

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:27:53 UTC, David Graser <dwgras@swbell.net> 
wrote:

> Hi Frank
> 
> I like what you have done.  Thanks for all your hard work.
> 
> One thing that has always seemed out of place to me when using the 
> LVMGUI is to list the "Dummy" disks used as placeholders for
removable 
> drives as free space.  This has confused many people over the years. 
> Why not list anything that LVM recongnizes as 96 MB free space as a 
> "Dummy Drive, removable drive placeholder, or something else instead
of 
> free space at the top of LVMGUI.
> 
> David

One problem with that, is that it may cause trouble, if the user 
actually does have a 96 MiB drive, with free space. That is, exactly, 
how a 100 MiB ZIP drive shows up, when a disk is mounted. Surely, 
there is a way to tell if a disk is actually mounted, or not, and 
handle the situation correctly, by indicating that the drive is empty.

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:05:16 UTC, Anakor Himmelsl„ufer <anakor@snafu.de>
wrote:

> >> One thing that has always seemed out of place to me when using the

> >> LVMGUI is to list the "Dummy" disks used as placeholders
for removable 
> >> drives as free space.  This has confused many people over the
years. 
> >> Why not list anything that LVM recongnizes as 96 MB free space as
a 
> >> "Dummy Drive, removable drive placeholder, or something else
instead 
> >> of free space at the top of LVMGUI.
> > 
> > Or under the physical view, for "Status when the drive is
selected, list 
> > it as "dummy drive" or "Removable drive
Placeholder".

Exactly what I was thinking of suggesting...

May I plug the way MINILVM does it?  It just shows a greyed-out icon for 
the drive, without popping up misleading error messages.

> I don't have tested removeable drives yet. I know there was something I 
> forgot :-)
> I will connect my old Iomega Zip in a couple of days to see what's going
on.

Using the LVM API, you can check using the Drive_Control_Record.Drive_Is_PRM
field to see if a drive is removeable media.  Then you can use the 
Drive_Information_Record.Unusable field to determine whether it's currently
available (i.e. disk inserted) or not.


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