[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Problem with Disto driver and PCdos in Nitros9

[Robert Gault]

Charlie wrote:

> This driver seems to work very very well in no hault mode. I notice the only 
> time floppy access slows the whole system is during the 1st part of a 
> format.
> 
> To test I started a backup, switched to another screen and started loading / 
> playing rogue from my hard disk. Hardly noticed the floppy drives were 
> running.
> 
> Charlie
> 

That's the way all no-halt drivers work regardless who wrote/built them. 
A controller would need a RAM chip able to hold a full track to be able 
to format (write track command) in no-halt mode. Far as I know, no such 
controllers exist for the Coco.