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From: wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Technical question - Disks
Message-ID: <1776@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 19:27:22 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.1776
Posted: Thu Nov 10 19:27:22 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Nov-83 07:29:41 EST
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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   This is for all the people that really understand the hardware/
software of the PC. How does the disk interface to the P.C.? Does
the PC autosense that a floppy is attached? If it does, then what does 
it expect to see when it looks at the disk? 

The bottom line question is: what is required to make a peice of
hardware appear to be a floppy disk in a PC? Maybe I shouldn't
rule out hard disks if they would work too. Oh, another question:
what does PCDOS do if there are two floppy disks?  

This line of questioning is all going towards the goal of putting in
a board that has a program on it in ROM. It would be nice if we
could get this program to run without loading it off of a disk. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and just to stop any
rumors, this has zip to do with Fortune Systems (unless my Dad joined
when I wasn't looking). Thanks.

			...!fortune!wall  otherwise known as:
							-Jim