Mounting MSDOS floppy drive

From: Skip (skip_at_skip.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:36:34 +0100

I've mounted a floppy drive by:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

and can then read the files on the floppy. However, if I remove that
floppy and insert another, I can't refresh the contents of that device,
and all I can see are the files on the first floppy.

How do I overcome this??? (surely I don't have to unmount the device each
time?)

TIA

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