It could be the plex86 _BIOS_. Anyone get that error when not using the
BIOS? Maybe the BIOS' floppy disk code needs to have a delay in it?? Too
bad Kevin's not here (since he wrote it).
Eyal Lotem wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 19 June 2001 01:30, you wrote:
> > I take it we _ALL_ get the message
> >
> > floppy io: cylinder request != current cylinder
> >
> > and that we all just ignore it, right?
> >
> > I got tired of that message so I kind of got rid of it... but anyone
> > have any idea _WHY_ it's being generated?
> >
> > I think the problem might be that the error happens all the time on a
> > real system and that's why the program has to retry... because the
> > floppy disk motor might not spin up fast enough... that's just a guess
> > though. I don't have any FDC controller specs. Where do you guys get
> > that stuff?
> I am not sure, but I don't think it has anything to do with the motor
> spinning up, on real hardware, it would mean that the sector ID tags read
> from the current track the head is on, have a track/cylinder ID that do not
> correspond to the cylinder ID of the command given to the controller at the
> time of the error.
> It would basically mean that implied seeks are off, and that the last seek to
> the track did not complete successfully before issuing the command to the
> controller.
> Buggy driver, or buggy plex..
> More lookup might help.
