🚀 go-pugleaf

Ok, i give up...

What's the secret to being able to stuff (just for example) a 'tar' floppy
into a NeXT's drive and then to read it?  The scenario is this:  i'm here
at work, and i write off a 'tar' floppy on a machine here.  I go home and plug
it in my NeXT, only to be prompted "Floppy unreadable:  initialize or eject?:"
by a dialog window.  It expects that any floppy you stick in it is supposed to
be a mountable file system... that's what it will do to it if you select the
"initialize" option.  I need an "ignore" option that will just let it sit
there in the drive until i later go to read it with 'tar'.  The workspace has
a preferences option that sounds like it would do the trick (under
disk/removable_media, there is "do nothing") but it doesn't... you still get
the prompt for "initialize or eject" when inserting a non-fs floppy.

Now, i not too cleverly figured out how to work around this to write a 'tar'
(or it might as well be 'cpio', 'dd'...) floppy.  I go ahead and "initialize"
it (wasting time while it creates the file system (and maybe does a format?)),
but then as root, unmount that new filesytem without ejecting the floppy.
Then, i'm free as me to do whatever with it... oh... until i want to eject it.
Then what? "Eject" is not at that point selectable from the workspace's "disk"
menu.  I think i have to reboot the machine to get it to eject.

This seems impossibly silly!... what am i missing here?  The basic user doc
doesn't even hint at how to proceed with this.

pax,
   Karl
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   (NeXT Mail to karl@khaos.com, thanks!)