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Dai Conrad wrote:
> I've been having a problem with updatedb for a while now.  The
> symptoms are that late in the process it starts grinding my A: drive
> and I have to hit ctrl-C to kill it.

<snip>

> A:             /a         system  binmode


Try unmounting your floppy drive.


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