Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org (03/24/91)
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) writes: (... about Floprate() ...) > This is true if You want to set different seek rates for both drives. > If You want to set both drives to te same seek rate, place the new seek > rate in adress 0x440 (zero: six, 1: 12, 2: 2, 3: 3 milliseconds) and > call the function pointed to by the vector in adress 0x46A (hdv_init). > This will make new Bios parameter blocks for both drives and tel TOS to > use the new seek rate. > Works on all TOS versions, cause it uses only documented system > variables. Yes, but it also tries to execute the boot sectors of drives A and B. Fur- termore, the routine is *very* slow if just one drive is attached (needs more than one second). Daniel