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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: INHIBIT flag
Message-ID: <1570@sas.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 22:48:14 GMT
References: <10989@baldrick.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <10989@baldrick.udel.EDU> INFOLAB%ITOPOLI.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>Hi net,
>        In O.S. 1.3 there are new flags for sys:system/Format. Who knows
>        what INHIBIT option does? I've tried it but it seems make nothing.
>        I've seen INHIBIT as PARK option too.
>
It sends an ACTION_INHIBIT packet to the file system.  This tells the file
system not to accept any I/O requests.  This is why you get the 'DF0:BUSY'
on the workbench when doing a diskcopy or format - DF0: has been inhibited.


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