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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: [opendos-developer] Caching
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:14:18 +0100
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> Also, you say that in Linux(or other) that it is ready when the
> process ends, however this is not true.

I know, my point is, that we make it true!

> I just copied stuff to
> my currently mounted floppy.  I watched "cp" with "top" until the
> process was finished.  I got my prompt back and removed the disk.
> That disk now needs to be reformatted because the cache is NOT
> sync'd before the prompt returns.  Even if the cache was sync'd
> before the prompt returns in BASH, it won't help me if I'm using
> Midnight commander or something else to copy to the disk.  Since
> caching a floppy is TOTALLY USELESS to me on my system, and just
> causes lost disks, I wish I could do away completely with it.  I
> hope that OpenDOS will also allow this option too.

OpenDOS uses nwcache, right?
So I think it works the same as in SMARTDRV.
You can turn off the foppy caching.
We should only make it the default value, in stead of like in SMARTDRV,
where the default is floppy cache on.

	Yeep