david@l8s.co.uk said:
> Why would ether of these stop the floppy rotating? 

I missed the beginnings of the thread...
just my 2c: There is a delay of 3 seconds in biosdisk.c's
close() function which should give the BIOS enough time
to look at its timeout counters.
This used to work at some point in history...

best regards
Matthias