Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | 4 Mar 2000 10:37:6 +0100 | From | "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <> | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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Den 18-Feb-00 14:36:10 skrev David Balazic følgende 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.
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