How to disable floppy cache?
July 02, 2004 09:36 PM
We're trying Fedora2, and we found out that it has write-back cache on floppy. How am I going to disable that? Google brings me to (my closest result):
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9803.3/0092.html
that says "The floppy cache is flushed whenever your drive reports a disk change event." - Alan Cox
In the end I have to ask here, how am I going to disable the write-back cache? Or disable asynchronous write to floppy?
I need this because my colleague always seems to eject the floppy when there's no more "saving file" dialog.
Thanks in advance.
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July 02, 2004 10:00 PM
Not sure about disabling the cache, but unmounting the floppy before ejecting it will always flush the cache. Of course, your friend would have to remember to unmount it before ejecting.
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July 02, 2004 11:45 PM
Add the sync option in fstab. Something like:
"man mount" and "man fstab" should help.
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto,sync 0 0"man mount" and "man fstab" should help.
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