Floppy question

On 19 Jan 2002, Blake Barnett wrote:
> Many floppy drives weren't designed to 100% specs and don't flush their
> buffers when disks are removed.

Huh? Floppy drives don't *have* buffers. They still work the same as in
CP/M days, they are very "dumb" as all the binary -> MFM data stream
encoding is handled by the also-very-dumb floppy controller.

Only exception is the LS-120 drives which connect to IDE.

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