Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Removable media bug | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:08:50 +0100 (BST) |
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> > In the original post, Giuliano said that he umounted the drive, so > > everything the system knew about the drive should have been thrown away > > then, surely ? > > Exactly. Just as a umount forces writing of all buffers, it must > invalidate the buffers. I'm curious why noone noticed that earlier.
He has a faulty floppy drive, everyone else doesn't is the short summary. The FDC has a "disk changed" detection line.
That is why we support
floppy=broken_dcl
as a boot option
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