At 16.25 -0500 02-01-04, Andrew Ellis wrote:
>on 1/4/02 1:51 PM, Thomas Reed at thomasareed at earthlink dot net wrote:
>
> > No, I don't think that's a good solution. If someone has a laptop with
> > CD-ROM, external CD-RW and Zip drive, and flash cards in both PC card
>> slots, then I'd end up sending removables flying all over the room.
>> That's not the desired behavior.
>
>:) Kids might enjoy all these flying objects though...
>
>Well, I don't have a perfect answer but I can suggest a less than perfect
>solution. How about checking in addition to the IsRemovable property, the
>Capacity property (a range between 630mb and 720mb to be safe). This should
>rule out Zip disks, Jazz disks, DVDs, flash cards,etc. It leaves you with
>the CD-RW and CD drives. Since both can read CDs, you just have to eject one
>of them for the kids to insert the required CD.
>Sounds too unprofessional, I know.
>
>Andrew
CD's can be of any size from 0 to 700 MB so that wouldn't be a very good
solution. Another thing to consider is HFS CDs with multiple sessions since
they show up as multiple volumes.
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Anders Hellström
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