[Coco] drive motors

Stephen Castello zootzoot at cfl.rr.com
Fri Jul 12 18:36:09 EDT 2013


On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:04:55 -0500, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk
out:

>In a two drive system, all working perfectly, is it normal that whether 
>or not you are accesssing disk 0 or disk 1, drive motors on both drives 
>spin?  The in-use light lights up properly on drive 0 or drive 1 as 
>expected, just that both motors spin.
>
>-RobertH

Normal for a Coco. Having all the motors running saves a byte or two
in not having to need a delay when switching between floppy drives.

-- 

Stephen

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