Re: dos floppies

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Damion Yates wrote:

> > (Nit-picking) Mounting a DOS floppy would give you the benefit of
> > caching, whereas mtools is write-through. I believe?
> 
> I'd see that as a disadvantage normally, sure it can be nice, but in this
> day and age floppies are for quick and dirty use.

Hmm. Not sure how you equate quick use with write-through cache, but there
we go ;) As for not umounting a floppy, well, it's your own fault I guess
;))

> I've found it worth using capitals for all filenames, as that stops win95's
> doslabel kludge for extended filenames, which is called vfat in Linux, this
> stops it breaking sun's floppy access, old dos access, Atari ST's access..

I've never had vfat break an MS-DOS floppy, even using CROSS-Dos on the
Amiga... ?

> Coo Supermount, that's on my list of, "must try at some point" things, what's
> it like?

Fabulous, in most cases. I have confused it on occasion, can't remember
the circumstances, but 99% of the time it's easier than mounting /
unmounting, even using Kfloppy etc..

Cheers,

Alex.


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