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SubjectRe: floppy device caching?
Alan,

Thanks for the responce.

So it's the drive that is not reporting a disk change. Is there some BIOS
setup that controls this that I'm not aware of. I recall having an old 386
that had a ESDI controller w/floppy and it had jumper for disk change notice,
however I don't believe there is anything of the sort on the newer pentiums.


Alan Cox wrote:

> > way I was able to read the content of the current diskette and not the
> > content of previous diskette was to constently alternate between the
> > devices.
> >
> > Is there something such as a kernel parameter that will disable the
> > floppy cache?
>
> The floppy cache is flushed whenever your drive reports a disk change
> event.
>



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