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