RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 12:15 PM
> To: reschke@muenster.de
> Cc: Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no; mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> "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.

Yes, this is the known behaviour of floppies in Atari machines.