Re: Apple Desktop II on a IIe card?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>Yeah, that disk access thing is a hindrance,
>and it does it with UniDisk 3.5" drives on
>the IIc and IIe as well. I haven't tried it
>with a Superdrive card, but it probably does
>it with those too.

It seems likely that the program (and others like it) are
polling the status of the drives to monitor disk changes,
and this is enough to keep them "busy".

This is a consequence of most Apple II drive/controller
combinations being unable to report when a disk is inserted
or removed.

-michael

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