Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/12/20:50:01
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Slow floppy?
> Man, the only thing I do with them is copy from, or copy to.
> Where's the need for caching something like that?
> Copy to, ready, remove.
> Caching would make it even slower (I think)
Yes, that is my point. Caching floppies doesn't really serve any
useful purpose at all. 99% of all floppy usage is just as you
state. Do you know how to stop Linux from caching floppies?
Perhaps a mount switch?
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