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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Troubles with hard interrupts aand HDD
Date: 10 Jun 2004 21:04:26 GMT
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turomas <josepmaria AT turomas DOT com> wrote:
> I have caugth HDD interrupt and I put there my own interrupt wich calls HDD
> interrupt. I can see that delay comes when HDD interrupt has finished, and
> only with smartdrv installed. 

Well, then: turn smartdrv off.  Or disable the entire harddrive
completely.  Your latency requirements are a rather tough call for an
ordinary PC running DOS, without low-level drivers and buffering to
ease things up a bit.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.