From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!RROTH.ES@parc-maxc.arpa Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Shugart motor hack desired. Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.367 Posted: Fri Feb 4 09:12:00 1983 Received: Mon Feb 7 03:39:35 1983 Ben, You are allowed 10 retries on a read/write attempt. With the motors just starting to spin you'll get errors, but you will be up to speed within the 10 and then off and running. I know that it is not a clean approach but it has two things in its favor: 1. It is cheap 2. It works Bob