| From: | Matthew Allatt |
| Date: | 31 Oct 2000 at 19:49:41 |
| Subject: | Re: Choosing to mount a DosDriver |
Hello Jonathan
On 31-Oct-00, you wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to have Drivers in DEVS:DosDrivers/ that
> only mount if the media for that driver is actually inserted? I'm
> interested in if it's possible on the fly, rather than any method that
> requires me to click on icons ;)
I cannot think of any way, without any special software as it is. It may be
possible to make a commodity to do this.
>
> Specifically, it's for fat95 mounted PC disks (Zip and Floppy)- looks like
> fat95 requires the ACTIVATE tooltype to be set as 1, the disks don't mount
> at all if it is 0.
What do you wish to achieve by doing this? If it is to eliminate ghosted
icons on the workbench screen, then if you insert a PC disk, then you will
still get a ghosted df0: disk icon.
If you are using WB3.5, I have a commodity that I have written that will
sort this problem out in a much better way. It /should/ be appearing on
AACD 15 (I ftp'd it to AACD reader submissions a couple of weeks ago), or I
could email it to you as an attachment.
If you are trying to save memory, then the cure may prove to be worse than
the symptoms.
>
> If it's any help, I have the latest MCP and Opus Magellan II at my
> disposal (though I can't figure out if MCP has any options that suffice).
I don't have Opus, nor do I use MCP any more, so I don't know what
facilities they have.
>
Regards
Matt.
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