Subject: Re: Detaching live sd devices
To: Lars Nordlund <lars.nordlund@hem.utfors.se>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/25/2005 19:17:52
On 2005.07.25 20:03:14 +0000, Lars Nordlund wrote:
| On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:41:04 +0300
| Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi> 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.
| 
| What happened if you inserted another floppy instead of the one you
| just removed? Did it destroy that floppy with the other floppy's dirty
| buffers?

No, IIRC Workbench was able to distinguish between different floppies.
I remember I had done this mistake often, but I never got any floppy
destroyed that way.

		-- Rui Paulo