#Wow! More Amiga HD fun!
17-Oct-93 18:05:20
Sb: #118499-#Wow! More Amiga HD fun!
Fm: Jim Nangano/SYSOP 76703,4254
To: J Saperstein/FontBank 75300,632
You are right that a drive does not necessarily have to be ready
to function within 3 seconds, but it _should_ at least be able to
respond with a "I'm not ready yet, but I'm working on it". That is
the "spec", and that is the way that well-designed drives work.
Of course, as Dean pointed out, in the world of IDE drives, we're
not usually talking well-designed, just designed to support the only
significant market that uses IDE drives. Unfortunately, Commodore
made a serious mistake in choosing to use the IDE technology in the
first place, and you are unfortunately among those paying the price.