Has anyone tried to initiate a header command to format a disk on drive 0, 
and before it's completion, initiate another header command to format a 
disk on drive 1?  
Bill 

-------- Original Message --------
> From: "Anders Carlsson" <anders.carlsson@sfks.se>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:21 AM
> To: cbm-hackers@ling.gu.se
> Subject: Re: 90x0
> 
> Ruud wrote:
> 
> > why do the dual IEEE drives need two CPU's?
> 
> Perhaps the IEEE protocol transfers data at a higher rate, so one 1-2 MHz 

> 6502 wouldn't quite keep up with both reading from the disk, decoding and 

> send it upstream?
> 
> 'Cause I suppose it is not possible to e.g. format drive #0 and load from 

> drive #1 at the same time?
> 
> Just guessing. :-D
> 
> -- 
> Anders Carlsson
> 
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