Subject: Re: Detaching live sd devices
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/25/2005 10:52:40
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