on 1/27/05 10:00 PM, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/27/05 6:36 PM, Mark Wagner didst favor us with:
>
>> I hadn't thought about the case of
>> needing to eject a CD during startup, though -- most of the time, I
>> use computers with proper eject buttons on the drive itself,
>
> Excuse me, but who decided what constitutes a "proper" eject button? The
> eject key is just a legitimate, even if you haven't thought to use it.
Ahem. A proper eject button can't be legitimately located in a different
room from the drive itself.
>> and then it's simply a matter of hitting the button as soon as the computer
>> is
>> powered on.
>
> Key, button, why is one inherently better than the other?
Yes, the button also is more finicky, probably requiring the firmware to be
running. In any case there are times in the boot process when the system
already has power but does not respond to the eject key. There is also a
good deal more infrastructure that must be working for the eject key to
work, though admittedly a hardware eject might if implemented in certain
ways have similar limitations. A good implementation might permit a "pure"
hardware eject to remain active from power on until either the device is
chosen as the boot device or if not, until it is mounted in the startup
process.
-Kurt
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