Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!nysernic!itsgw!batcomputer!braner From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: fast multi-sector floppy I/O with interrupts Message-ID: <1757@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:09:36 EDT Article-I.D.: batcompu.1757 Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:09:36 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jul-87 04:04:58 EDT References: <204@nlgvax.UUCP> <9800@orchid.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 8 Summary: DBASIC mixes 512- and 1024-byte sectors [] DBASIC (which has pretty impressive disk I/O performance in its DOS, which completely ignores TOS) uses 1K sectors, five per track. To enable booting, it uses normal TOS sectors on the first track. So, it can be done! - Moshe Braner