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Re: floppy low-level format



> > The device busy could be that you havn't unmounted the drive since
> > you ejected the disk.
> 
> Nope.  The drive was not mounted, as both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
> agree.  It would not have made much sense for superformat to have
> mounted the drive.  But somehow, somewhere, it tagged the drive as
> being `in use'.

Maybe the botched ioctl resulted in the kernel not decrementing the use
count of the floppy driver. 

	Michael




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