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1 perry 1 FDFLUSH
2 !!!FDFLUSH
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 BUGS
8 FILES
9 AUTHOR
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11 !!NAME
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14 fdflush - force floppy disk drive to detect disk change
15 !!SYNOPSIS
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18 __fdflush__ [[device]
19 !!DESCRIPTION
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22 __Fdflush__ is a band-aid for a common PC hardware
23 problem. Many PC floppy disk drives can't detect when the
24 disk has been changed. The symptom of this problem is that
25 when a disk is changed, the drive will continue to read
26 buffered data from the previous disk rather than new data
27 from the disk presently in the drive. Running ''fdflush''
28 makes the system believe the disk-change switch has been
29 actuated, and the system discards the buffered blocks in
30 response to this information. If you have one of these
31 slightly-broken disk drives, you'll have to run
32 ''fdflush'' every time you change a disk.
33 !!OPTIONS
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36 ''device''
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39 The name of the floppy disk device, in the form ''/dev/fd1
40 .'' The default is ''/dev/fd0 .''
41 !!BUGS
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44 They're in your hardware. Try swapping in another floppy
45 drive to see if this problem goes away.
46 !!FILES
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49 /dev/fd''N'' floppy disk device.
50 !!AUTHOR
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53 Bruce Perens ''Bruce@Pixar.com .''
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