[NTLUG:Discuss] Floppy mount/unmount, mount/unmount, repeat as often as necessary...
lee@brave.com
lee at brave.com
Fri Sep 8 18:19:13 CDT 2000
Steve Baker wrote:
>
> lee at brave.com wrote:
>
> > (you know, i know of another OS where you can exchange a floppy disk and
> > view its contents without having to do all of this extra work ;)
>
> Yes - but that same OS has VERY slow access to the floppy because it has
> to continually write data to the floppy rather than caching it in RAM.
it's ok... but with linux i can *choose* to have very slow floppy
access if i want it. (i'm sure that when i tire of it i'll switch it
back ;)
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