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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 1998 03:26:04 -0600
From:      Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>
To:        Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/4413
Message-ID:  <19980323032604.03091@gaffaneys.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803230810.AAA08914@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 12:10:34AM -0800
References:  <199803230810.AAA08914@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 12:10:34AM -0800, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> Synopsis: No way to unmount a floppy that goes bad while mounted.
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: closed-open
> State-Changed-By: hoek
> State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 23 00:08:31 PST 1998
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Ah.  Originator did try -f but didn't mention that in his pr.  Sorry
> for not bothering to ask you (Zach Heilig -- originator), first.  All
> your examples omitted the -f.

This may have been before I realized you had to cc: freebsd-gnats-submit to
get stuff into the PR database.  There was more correspondence.
Unfortunately, the hard drive containing particular mail archive died [with
the rest of /home :-(] shortly after I replaced my motherboard (the old one
wouldn't boot from the hard-drive, the reason for using floppies so much), so

> It would seem I did in fact completely waste my 720KB floppy, then... :-(

If you could not reproduce it, it probably really was fixed.  I suppose one
way to really check would be to mount a floppy (ufs formatted), write to it/
sync/eject it (do not unmount it yet), put a few pinholes through the section
where the meta-data sits, and put it back in.  Now try to unmount it.

-- 
Zach Heilig -- zach@gaffaneys.com
Real Programs don't use shared text.  Otherwise, how can they use
functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?

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