Den 18-Feb-00 14:36:10 skrev David Balazic fĝlgende om "Re: Of removable devices":
> I you eject a floppy during read on amiga , just just get a "Put it back
> in !" message , and when you put in back in , it continues with read and
> nothing bad happens. For writing it is a little bit worse , becasue
> amigaOS just overwrites ( AFAIK ) the entire track ,so some older sectors
> might be lost, but this isn't the case on wintel PCs, because they
> operate sector-wise , so it shouldn't be a problem.
No, it is the other way around: With the Amiga floppy controller, you
can save the particular track which was being written because you write
whole tracks at a time. Simply write the track again when the disk comes
back and the track will be fine.
Regards,
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