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Re: Questions! (disk track buffering)

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From: mwm
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1986 21:01
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Minor correction:  The NEC765/Intel8272 do ready polling only when they
have nothing else to do.  If you're reading/writing to one drive you
can change the disk in the other and it won't know the difference.
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From: mwm@ucbvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Questions! (disk track buffering)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 17:01:16 EDT
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