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posted by kerravon E-mail, Sydney, Free World South, 08.05.2025, 01:25

> You have to idle the machine while waiting.
Wow - that's fascinating! I have fdapm under Freedos
already, so I tried "fdapm /apmdos" and it brought
things under control.

I also saw the spinup/spindown and realized that
someone needs to be responsible for switching off
the disks when they are not in use.

> Unfortunately most DOS and ROM-BIOS do not do that.
You say "unfortunately" - but I have a question. Whose
responsibility do you think it ideally is to do this work?

And especially the spinning down of disks. If you know
you are waiting for a keystroke, should you begin the
disk spindown procedure straight away, or does that
cause an issue if the user is touch-typing and the next
keystroke is 0.1 seconds away?

If a complex algorithm is required, then perhaps it is
best relegated to DOS. And in fact, DOS would ideally
have the smarts to see that a keystroke is not enough
to wake up the disk - it should only be done if after
sufficient keystrokes, there is some request for disk
services.

Thanks. Paul.

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