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Old 30 April 2017, 08:46   #1353
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Originally Posted by plasmab View Post
The disk drive change signal is only valid (i.e. you can only detect a disk change) after you step the disk on many (most?) of the drives that have appeared in Amigas over the years. Thats why they step so the the OS can see if the drive has changed.
I'm too lazy to double check, but I think this is actually in Shugart's original spec.. The DC flip flop is clocked by the step signal, thus all drive mechanisms exhibit this behaviour.

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EDIT: Goodness me i hadnt seen that there was 68 pages on this thread. Sorry if this has already been answered 20 times.
Hehe.. It's been going on for a while now. :-)
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