On Thu, 8 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
