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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:03:14PM +0200, Lars Nordlund wrote:
> Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi> wrote:
>=20
> > On the Amiga, you just ejected the disk.  If the OS had any dirty buffe=
rs,
> > it would ask the user to reinsert the disk so it could flush the buffer=
s.
> > It also flushed the buffers when a timeout expired after the "last" disk
> > access.
>=20
> What happened if you inserted another floppy instead of the one you
> just removed? Did it destroy that floppy with the other floppy's dirty
> buffers?

No. Filesystem volumes have names in AmigaOS, so the OS knows if the right
floppy is in.

In most cases, you could even insert into a different drive; but I think
flushing dirty buffers was the exception.

	-is

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