On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> > >- - You stick a floppy in the drive and this causes a "media change"
> > > event on the real device.
>
> > I could easily be wrong, but I thought that one of the fundamental
> > problems was that the floppy h/w can't do this. I think someone
> > mentioned that you have to poll to get this effect.
>
> It works for most floppies, but some only generate "disk change" events
> when the heads are moved (that's why the Amiga clicks its floppies every
> second).
OK, so on some drives we'll need to make a clicking noise every time we
handle a cache hit. No big deal, apart from a slight extra latency :-)
James.
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