Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/14/19:18:04
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
Question! If this is such a monster problem, why not have the software
tweak the disk drive as to keep the silly little light lit till done? Or
would this be bypassing the bios too much?
> $mount /dev/fd0 /a -t msdos
> $cp txt/* /a/
> A 3 second wait for a 1.3Mb transfer to floppy.
> Now the drive light is off, and you pull the disk out (like you
> would in DOS). However, the command prompt *IS* back, and the
> cache hasn't written the data to disk. Kiss the disk goodbye.
>
> Also, even if you could make the command prompt come back, this
> would just delay the copy operation so that you'd have to wait
> for it before doing anything else. What? In a multitasking OS?
> Heck, any commands that don't give me my prompt back get shoved
> in the background, so that copy command becomes:
>
> $cp txt/* /a/ &
>
> And the prompt is back.
>
> I'm going to scour the mount manpage again. I tried the following
> "mount -o async", but it doesn't work.
>
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