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From: greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How can I set different step rates for different floppy disk drives?
Keywords: floppy, step-rate, IBMPC
Message-ID: <684@hades.OZ>
Date: 1 May 90 04:13:21 GMT
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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Can anyone tell me if it is possible to set the floppy disk head step rate
for different drives to different values on an IBM-PC compatible?.

I have two floppy drives on my machine: one can step at 3ms, but the other
can't step faster than 6ms, so I would like to set the fast one to 3ms and
leave the slower one at 6ms.

There is a table pointed to by one of the interrupt vectors which holds the
head step rate for both drives, so I can set them both to 3ms by changing the
value in this table - but that changes both drives, and I only want to change
one.

Can anyone help?. Please Email me if you can as I'm very likely to miss your
valuable reply!.

					regs,
						Greyham.
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