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From: Samuel M. Goldberger
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 08:13

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In article <C07pzs.H46@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)  
writes:
> A safer course of
> action here is to first kill off the SoftPC process or anything else
> that might have a hold of the floppy, become root, and type 'disk -e
> /dev/rfd0a'.  Then, reboot cleanly with Command-~ or the 'reboot'
> command as root.  The reboot is necessary because you have confused
> the autodiskmount daemon by manually ejecting the disk without
> properly unmounting it.  (If you don't reboot, disks that are
> inserted will not be recognized)

You can also issue the "umount /dev/fd0a" instead of rebooting. But David is  
right that this procedure is the safest.

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