Just as maginotjr said; EVERY OS treats mounting and unmounting removable drives in the same way Linux does, it's just that Windoze and sMac utilize a snazzy script, not unlike autofs (or rc.autofs, as the case may be), to keep it as transparent as they can. The reason an empty drive can't be mounted is that it's the filesystem on the diskette (or CD, etc.) that is being mounted, rather than the drive itself.
Last edited by Charred; 07-21-2005 at 02:36 PM.
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