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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: Simple floppy question
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	I think that it is because the "busy" light really indicates if
the disk is *spinning*, not necessarily being read/written.  The drive
has to spin up to speed, do its read/write, then spin down and stop.  The
light is on during all this process.  I often take the floppy out after I
can hear that it is not being read/wrote, but before the light goes out,
and I've never had a problem.


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John Gordon
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