On Tuesday 19 June 2001 01:30, you wrote:
> I take it we _ALL_ get the message
>
> floppy io: cylinder request != current cylinder
>
> and that we all just ignore it, right?
>
> I got tired of that message so I kind of got rid of it... but anyone
> have any idea _WHY_ it's being generated?
>
> I think the problem might be that the error happens all the time on a
> real system and that's why the program has to retry... because the
> floppy disk motor might not spin up fast enough... that's just a guess
> though. I don't have any FDC controller specs. Where do you guys get
> that stuff?
I am not sure, but I don't think it has anything to do with the motor
spinning up, on real hardware, it would mean that the sector ID tags read
from the current track the head is on, have a track/cylinder ID that do not
correspond to the cylinder ID of the command given to the controller at the
time of the error.
It would basically mean that implied seeks are off, and that the last seek to
the track did not complete successfully before issuing the command to the
controller.
Buggy driver, or buggy plex..
More lookup might help.
