On Jul 25, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On the Amiga, you just ejected the disk.  If the OS had any dirty  
> buffers,
> it would ask the user to reinsert the disk so it could flush the  
> buffers.
> It also flushed the buffers when a timeout expired after the "last"  
> disk
> access.

...and on the Amiga, was there a way to yank the disk out of a hot- 
plug port?  In this case, by the time the OS gets the notification,  
it's too late.

-- thorpej