Re: floppy disk change (was Re: 1.15 kernel)

[Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>]

rincewind@tubul.dascon.de%INTERNET wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 08:40:32PM +0200, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> > Sounds logical. I don't remember the 1772 well (it has been a while since
> > I'd played with this chip), but won't the "read id" command prevent the
> > motor from stopping? FDC is pretty simple, that I remember, but I don't
> > know...
> 
> In that case, you would have to do your own timeout handling to turn off the
> motor. This method definitely sounds possible, but it is quite some effort.
> 
> > Plus some "esc-emulator" for weird people using their Atari via
> > telnet (like I do :-)).
> 
> That should be the smallest problem involved.

That would be FORCEMED from the SPIN package :-)