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From: blakec@pi3.local (Carl D. Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Track to Track seek times on floppy disk device driver.
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Date: 13 Sep 90 18:40:26 GMT
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I have been looking for a floppy disk device driver that would allow
you to change the track to track seek rate through the mountlist file.
I have never heard of one and have been thinking about writing one
myself (if I could ever find the time).  However, this seems like
something someone would have done a long time ago (seems too useful
for words).  So perhaps there is a problem with doing this.  If anybody
knows anything about this, please let me know.

One reason I am so interested is that I have a 5 1/4" floppy disk
drive out of an old IBM PC that has a much slower track to track
seek time (probably 6 ms - I believe that the current trackdisk.device
expects the drive to be able to handle 3 ms seek times) and I would
like to get it working on my A1000.

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