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Author: Jason
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Subject: floppies & linux
William Lindley wrote:
> You might try using brand-new formatted disks. Be sure if you put a
> floppy into a Windows box that you write-protect it, since Windows writes
> on a disk even if you only do a directory! (It's updating the "Last
> Access Time." Rah.) Thus merely reading a disk on someone else's machine
> with a misaligned drive can trash the disk.


what, no -noatime option??

heh

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