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From: verwer@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard drive questions
Summary: 1/60th of a second
Message-ID: <1523@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 21 Aug 89 08:38:02 GMT
References: <8908181535.AA13948@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
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In article <8908181535.AA13948@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SQ79@liverpool.ac.UK (Mark Powell) writes:
> 
> 2. I've heard that hard drives spin at about 3600 rpm. Therefore if your
>    recommended interleave factor is one, will the controller read the track
>    in a single revolution? If so doesn't that mean it is reading the track
>    in 1/3600th of a second? (This can't be right!) I know the seek and
Rpm means `revolutions per _minute_', and since there are 60 seconds to one
minute, and the controller reads the track in a single revolution, it reads
the track in 1/60th of a second. That is 16.6ms, not 0.3ms.

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Nico Verwer @ Dept. of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
(verwer@cs.ruu.nl)