>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 >> Interesting, but can it cope with a complete track of the disk?  I
 >> seem to remember that the floppy driver does do this from time to
 >> time, and this is larger than the DMA area.

 Philip> Ah, I didn't realise that.  I imagine that's not the common
 Philip> case though, and we could handle it differently in the last
 Philip> resort.  Or maybe the floppy driver can be prevented from
 Philip> doing this.  I'll take a look when I have time.

Don't know about common, but applications that want to do high speed
floppy I/O are likely to do such a thing.  I have one that hasn't yet
been upgraded to do this, but will be when I can.

        paul
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