Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/11/22:21:50
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
>
> > As I said, you could 'mount', ie declare the diskname as something you
> > would like to use later on, the driver should be smart enough to see that
> > the volume isn't really there and ignore it UNTIL you attempt to access
> > it, then it generates the error. Should you remove the media before
> > switching to another 'mounted' disk, the driver sees that the media has
> > changed and prompts you to insert the prior disk if it needs to be
> updated
> > before switching to the one you want to use. I know this sounds
> ungainly,
> > but DOS does this with floppies already.
>
> So does Winlose 95.
> God I hate that..the BBSOD (Big Blue Screen Of Death) pops up and tells me
> to re-insert floppie 23AF-B78C.
Yeah, that would get really annoying if you ask me. It would be
a much better solution to disable write caching on floppies. I'd
much rather use a slow floppy, than trash it because I forgot to
manually flush the cache.
Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html
mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
RHIDE: Current version 1.10
- Raw text -