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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 1.44mb drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.184449.26151@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 13 Mar 91 18:44:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.085205.28239@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1991Mar06.123439.20676@actrix.gen.nz> <2886@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <2083@netmbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2083@netmbx.UUCP> hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes:
>adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
>
>>In <1991Mar06.123439.20676@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>>It would be nice to change the step rate for the drives to suit the disk each
>>time a disk is changed.
>
>This cannot be done in a way, that will work on all versions of TOS,
>cause the location of the drive parameter block in RAM varies with the
>TOS version.

The Rainbow TOS developers' notes had a description of how to set the
step rate in all versions of TOS.  E-mail me if you're interested, and
if there's interest I'll post it.

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