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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 19:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Problems with floppy drive
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On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Ken Marsh wrote:

> I have to use the -f switch whenever I umount a floppy or I get an error
> to the effect of, "Device still busy"....

Don't forget to cd out of the mount directory.  You'll get this if you
mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt, cd /mnt, umount /mnt.

> Is this normal? Is it potentially harmful to use the -f switch, when the
> drive light is clearly off? can I use "sync" or something to do it right?

You shouldn't have to use -f.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major