At 10:22 PM 7/12/99 +0200, you wrote:
>] 1. Write your own diskroutines directly accessing the FDC, which leave the
>] interrupts enabled.
>This is not feasable. During sector I/O from floppy you can't miss a single
>byte. Even a trivial interrupt routine which returns immediately with a reti
>instruction takes too long during diskload.
Yes, it's true that the sector I/O would fail. But if you automatically
retry, disk I/O will only slow down, but still work. As long as a single
sector can be located and transferred in an interrupt period.
Bye,
Maarten
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