Re: Floppy problem
Alain Knaff (alknaff@hal.local.host)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 18:13:51 +0100
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>In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.961221231221.8954A-100000@fan1.fan.nb.ca>,
>William Burrow <aa126@fan.nb.ca> wrote:
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>>Can't. The floppy drive hardware is backward and stupid. It does not
>>notify when a disk is removed, it notifies (if you check!!) if a disk
^^^^^^^^
>>change has occurred.
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>Throwing back a few years, Atari ST machines used to poll the write
^^^^
[...]
>Of course, Atari never had to deal with write cached filesystems (though
Indeed.
Next question? ;-)
Alain