Re: New hardware advice please...

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From: David James Spillett
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:00

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In article <6rjq9b$qla$1@orudios.magnet.at>, Ray
<sacherer@ultrasonic.at> writes
>I think this is because Linux is caching the Drives.
>You can�t get a ZIP out of the Drive (like a Disk) if any process is using
>the Zip in any way.
>
>May to use a sync or a other Util to clear all puffers and caches, then it
>must be done.

umounting the disk should call sync for it automatically. If you find
running sync manually cures the problem something could be wrong with
your setup here [I have no such problems with my Zip, although it is the
parallel joby, not ATAPI].

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From: David James Spillett <DJSpillett@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: New hardware advice please...
Date: 1998/08/23
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