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- From: smg@orb.com (Samuel M. Goldberger)
- Subject: Re: SoftPC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.081311.13613@crl.com>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:13:11 GMT
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- In article <C07pzs.H46@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- writes:
- > A safer course of
- > action here is to first kill off the SoftPC process or anything else
- > that might have a hold of the floppy, become root, and type 'disk -e
- > /dev/rfd0a'. Then, reboot cleanly with Command-~ or the 'reboot'
- > command as root. The reboot is necessary because you have confused
- > the autodiskmount daemon by manually ejecting the disk without
- > properly unmounting it. (If you don't reboot, disks that are
- > inserted will not be recognized)
-
- You can also issue the "umount /dev/fd0a" instead of rebooting. But David is
- right that this procedure is the safest.
-
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