Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: floppy irq unregisters itself? | Date | Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:31:16 +0100 | From | Alain Knaff <> |
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> >Is there a reason why the floppy driver unregisters it's irq handler when >the motor goes off?
This is needed for ftape support. As floppy tapes and floppy disks share the same physical resources, the floppy driver and the ftape driver need to relinquish their resources when they are not in use, in order to let "the other guy" have access to them.
Regards,
Alain
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