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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 1996 19:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with floppy drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960720192114.525C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960720020918.46550G-100000@homer24.u.washington.edu>

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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




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