Date:	Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:42:43 +0500 (MVT)
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Subject:	RE: Accurate timing!
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Manni Heumann wrote:

> You mean HDs as well? The problem with floppies is, IMHO, that their timings 
> are dependent on the system timer. I don't think HDs are as stupid as that. 
> But maybe they were some years ago.

It does cause bad problems on some HDDs. That's the information I got when
I was testing some software I wrote. Using timer interrupts worked on DOS
quite well, but in Windows, it corrupted the filesystem. Since the
application was pretty large, I lost quite a bit of my hair finding this
out.

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