Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:42:43 +0500 (MVT) From: Prashant TR X-Sender: prashant_tr AT midpec DOT com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: RE: Accurate timing! In-Reply-To: <38ae738a_1@news.uni-bielefeld.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.