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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Non busy-wait disk IO on the ST.
Message-ID: <3430@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 16:23:38 GMT
References: <9023@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1685@atari.UUCP> <9042@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <9042@saturn.ucsc.edu> sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson) writes:
>What is the best (actually, cheapest and easiest to obtain) documentation
>on the DMA chip?  I've been surviving with the Laser C manual (which
>is quite good, for the things it documents).

A good example for a driver source is included in the Minix ST
sources...

A very good book about floppy and harddisk (and related stuff) is the
german text "Scheibenkleister" by Claus Brod, published by Maxon
Computer GmbH. 

The book is 860+ pages and includes a disk containig all
sources/programs discussed in the book.


hase
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