Re: Floppy handling

From: Simon Richter (Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 11:46:36 EST

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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).

Simon

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