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From: rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff)
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Subject: Re: 7.0 VM On a SyQuest: How??
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Date: 17 May 91 20:25:30 GMT
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In article <1991May17.194226.27421@ccu.umanitoba.ca> burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Andrew Burchill) writes:
>You can not put VM on any removable media.  The reasion is simple -
>What would happen if you ejected the cartride?, its kind of like
>pulling SIMMS out of a running machine.


No, this is kind of like saying that you can't boot a machine with SIMMs in it,
because somebody might pull one of the SIMMs out while it was running.

Obviously, if you eject a cartridge that has paging files on it, the system is
going to crash.  But that's no reason not to allow VM on removable media!  The
system should just give a warning when the paging files are set up.

Ideally, an attempt to eject the cartridge should be blocked with an alert.
But this would require (I presume) modifying the driver.  In the meantime, I
don't see what the problem is.  This seems like unnecessarily protecting people
from themselves.

   Robert