On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:40:04 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> (Also, I'm sure I saw somewhere a setting in Windows to select whether
>>> the "safely remove hardware" thing is optional or not. The default
>>> setting is worse performance in exchange for pulling the drive /not/
>>> completely screwing the filesystem. I'm guessing M$ found that too
>>> many people actually did this...)
>>
>> Performance vs. reliability.  Traditional tradeoff.
> 
> Yes. That makes sense. Turn it on if you want more speed, turn if off if
> reliability is more important.
> 
> What doesn't really make sense is that for a floppy disk, there's no
> option to turn it on.

People form habits, and rather than deal with people saying "Hey, you 
never told me I would lose data by doing this" (no matter how many 
warnings there are, someone will claim that and will sue over lost data 
as a result), they decided to leave it alone.

> Still, hopefully I will never have to access a floppy disk again for the
> rest of my natural life, so it won't actually *matter* or anything...

I was a bit surprised about 6 weeks ago when I had to.

Jim

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