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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Removable media bug
From:       "Giuliano Pochini" <pochini () denise ! shiny ! it>
Date:       1999-04-30 20:53:05
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>> > In the original post, Giuliano said that he umounted the drive, so
>> > everything the system knew about the drive should have been thrown 
away
>> > then, surely ?
>> 
>> Exactly. Just as a umount forces writing of all buffers, it must
>> invalidate the buffers. I'm curious why noone noticed that earlier.
>
>He has a faulty floppy drive, everyone else doesn't is the short 
summary.
>The FDC has a "disk changed" detection line.

I was spaking about a SCSI magneto-optical drive, not a floppy disk.
Anyway... Have some of you a removable media to repeat the test I did 
??

Bye.

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