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From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: FYI: eject diskA mount diskB
Message-ID: <5110@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 89 17:47:10 GMT
Reply-To: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I just ejected a disk; call it disk A and I pushed in disk B and the system
didn't realize that it was a new disk and scribbled all over it.  I couldn't
recover disk B by fsck and the data was lost (I had a backup though).

One strange thing that happened was that after I ejected disk A.
Automount prompted me to put it back in after several seconds (although
I didn't explicitly ask for anything from the disk (there a always things
going on which I am unaware though)).  I dutifully pushed disk A back in the
slot and then ejected it again.  This time whoever wanted the disk didn't want
it (at least not during the time that I waited to see if the message would
appear again).  So I pushed disk B in the slot and automount didn't realize it
was a new disk and proceeded to torch the disk.  Beware!

...eric
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Eric H. Thayer		Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
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