[10441] in Athena Bugs
ds5000 floppy drives and mtools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sun Apr 11 20:25:14 1993
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, consultdev@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 20:25:07 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
When I mcopy a file to a dos disk on an ds5000, the command returns
long before the disk is done being written to. IMHO, programs dealing
with removable media should not exit until it is safe to remove the
media. I don't know if it's the kernel write-caching and preventing
mcopy from dtrt, or if mtools is being lazy and not doing something it
should be doing, so bugs and consultdev are both getting this.
Marc
