Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

On 06/01/2019 13:16, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:

>
> A drive that turns on the motor without the drive select line being 
> active too has a design flaw. Properly designed drives would let you 
> control the motor only if the DS line is active too.

That would require you to interrupt communication with one drive while 
starting or stopping the motor on another.

As starting a motor takes an appreciable amount of time, it makes sense 
to overlap them.

If starting the motor while the drive isn't selected causes problems, 
then that is a design error.