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Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled



On Thu, 8 Aug 1996 salwen@phys2.harvard.edu wrote:

> > ... Don't forget
> >to pop out and replace the floppy - the data could be read from a disk
> >block cache rather than the floppy if you don't do that. ...
> 
> Does this note mean that one can replace floppy disks without unmounting
> and mounting in between?  Or were the 'umount' and 'mount' implied by
> "pop out"?  If they were, wouldn't the 'umount' and 'mount' alone be 
> sufficient without physically removing the disk?

There are other ways to get data from a floppy besides mounting and
unmounting, mtools or just raw data (ie - dd).  Those could be fooled
but shouldn't be on most floppy drive.  Use fdflush if you're nervous.


Guy



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