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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:55:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> The disk image, raw.bin, does NOT contain the image of the floppy.
> Most of boot stuff added by lilo is missing. It will eventually
> get there, but it's not there now, even though the floppy was
> un-mounted!

I doubt that you can reproduce that on anything remotely recent.
All buffers are flushed when last user closes device.

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