Re: [MiNT] floppy detection

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > 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.

And the position of the write-protect tab is supposed to pass for
a proper media-change detection scheme?! geez...

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