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FLoppy LOCKUP Acess in Windows95
Name: Ivan Date: August 5, 2002 at 21:03:58 Pacific
Comment:
Anyone here knows how to let FLOPPY DRIVE working independently (100% background), during writes mostly (reading donīt hang system for a while)? Itīs terrible, and I someday had 2 floppy drivers, with TERRIBLE results, when trying to use them BOTH.
Name: tech-fred Date: August 6, 2002 at 00:30:04 Pacific
Reply:
What are you doing in Windows that require that much floppy disk access?
Floppy drive service under Windows must be last on the interupt chain.
If the drive times out and stops spinning you have to wait for it to reach speed before it writes you data.
If you application closes the file after each write you have to wait for the FAT to be reread everytime you write.
I don't think any add on drivers will help that much. Better write to Hard Drive then copy to floppy. You might find an program that would automatically copy to the floppy at intervals.
More details please.
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Response Number 2
Name: IBM486dx33 Date: August 6, 2002 at 02:52:47 Pacific
Reply:
Since the floppy drives are on the same IDE channel, don't access them both at once or in close succession. I use floppies all the time and i know it's a pain. IBM
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