Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

"Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:

|> > From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
|> > Of Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no
|> > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 1:08 PM
|> > To: mint@fishpool.com
|> > Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
|> > 
|> > 
|> > > -----Original Message-----
|> > > From:	Julian Reschke [SMTP:reschke@muenster.de]
|> > > Sent:	Thursday, August 05, 1999 11:02 AM
|> > > To:	Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no; mint@fishpool.com
|> > > Subject:	RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
|> > > 
|> > > > device than the floppy, and as you all know this has been a
|> > > > problem-area in
|> > > > TOS since time began.
|> > > 
|> > > I don't agree. It has been rock-solid since TOS 2.06 and 3.06 where a
|> > > checksum of the FAT is taking in case of doubt.
|> > > 
|> > Hmm, I might be wrong here but I seem to recall that I had to hack the
|> > floppy in my TT to get mediachanges to work at all. But this was not an
|> > original floppydrive.
|> 
|> Well, then it was obviously not properly connected...

IIRC many drives don't report write-protect if no disk is inserted.  Thus
the write-protect signal remains unasserted if you change disks.  This has
nothing to do with the connection.

Andreas.

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