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From: PRINS%HLERUL5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ryko Prins, CRI, Leiden, Netherlands)
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Subject: Re: Minix - Atari Megafile 60 problems (continued)
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Date: 20 Feb 89 08:35:03 GMT
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>       >CNTRL-ALT-PF1 display for process HARDWARE (if I am correct).
> No. Since that counter increases as well if you have no hard disk
> at all.

Sorry, I was wrong, I meant the process WINCHESTER. The process HARDWARE will
be the null process or whatever it is called in Unix terminology.
Sorry, I am a VMS man, and have not very much experience with Unix or Minix,
so I look at it from a VMS point of view. In VMS one problably would use AST's
(Asynchronous System Traps, I don't know yet if there is a Minix homologue).

> No. This is by far the cheapest way.

To get a better understanding of the ATARI ST hard disk handling I am currently
disassembling (and interpreting) AHDI.PRG to compare it to the Minix disk
driver (AHDI has no problems with my Megafile 60). It seems AHDI does the same
kind of polling of the drive status, so it really seems the cheapest way.

                                        Greetings, Ryko Prins.