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From: DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu
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Subject: Re: Direct hardware drive access
Message-ID: <91091.001707DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 05:17:07 GMT
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In article <mykes.0972@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>, mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike
Schwartz) says:

>Another word of advice.  Do not use the book "Amiga Disk Drives: Inside
>and Out" by Abacus.  I was told by Commodore when I was writing my routines
>that the book is full of misinformation and was likely to cause people
>to have disk driver problems.

Correct. Although, I bought it because it DOES contain useful  information
...but read the hardware manual first and last!
(I really got a chuckle out of the example code that polled disk ready
after stepping the head or something. Real smart...)

-- Dan Babcock