[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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