Non busy-wait disk IO on the ST.

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From: Greg Anderson
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1989 17:16

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I would like to be able to initiate disk IO in a program, go away
and do something else & then be informed later (via an interrupt)
that the opperation completed.

Questions:

1.	Will GEMDOS do this?

If not:

2.	Can this be done when reading/writing sectors directly?


  ___\    /___               Greg Anderson              ___\    /___ 
  \   \  /   /         Social Sciences Computing        \   \  /   /
   \  /\/\  /    University of California, Santa Cruz    \  /\/\  /
    \/    \/              sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu             \/    \/

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Subject: Non busy-wait disk IO on the ST.
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