Head settle time in the DPT

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Head settle time in the DPT

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Is it still necessary to modify the head settle time in the disk parameter table (and thus have to relocate the int 0x1E interrupt vector) for floppy boots nowindays?
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You don't need to do so to boot off a floppy. When did you ever need to? I thought you could just stick a sector-long piece of real mode code in LBA sector 0 and turn on your box.
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