>>>>> "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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