Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Tue Sep 24 15:08:25 CDT 2019


On 9/24/19 12:53 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> Well I am guessing, the time the flopppy motor was kept on after
> a block read/write. Ben.

No, the spin-down delay is much longer than that--take a look at the
5150 BIOS.


--Chuck


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