Re: Drive detection stuff

[Mike Hearn]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:54:09 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> - We add links to the floppy drive. We should blacklist it, as it causes
> a big delay in the file open dialogs as we poll the drive which sits
> there spinning its motors naval-gazing. How many people still use
> floppy disks in 2005 anyway? I'm hoping the answer is "virtually none"

An alternative solution would be to poll the drives in a non-blocking
manner, though I'm not sure this would work for apps which do their own
file dialogs like Office.