Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcarl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcarl!andy From: andy@sdcarl.UUCP (Andrew Voelkel) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Non-pausing disk IO Message-ID: <216@sdcarl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:28:34 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcarl.216 Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:28:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 08:02:03 EDT References: <3303@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@sdcarl.UUCP (Andrew Voelkel) Distribution: net Organization: Computer Audio Research Lab, UCSD, San Diego, Calif. Lines: 14 I too have wondered about this and have had success with the following experiment: I have a Midi processing box that interrupts the host if told to do so. The service routine does a bunch of parsing and then calls a C routine which increments a global variable. This is a fair amount of overhead. What I have done is fire up a fprintf loop out to a file and then let the hardware interrupts fire away. My initial experiment worked, but I don't know if I am playing with fire. My experiment was writing to hard disk. Anyone know anything more about this? -- Andrew Voelkel {ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax}!sdcarl!andy