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From: johnhlee@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Johnny H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Track to Track seek times on floppy disk device driver.
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Date: 14 Sep 90 16:10:02 GMT
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In article <30359@nigel.ee.udel.edu> blakec@pi3.local (Carl D. Blake) writes:
>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.
[...]
>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.

Hmmm.  I'm not sure you need to do this.  I have a 360K IBM-compatible
5-1/4" hooked up to my system right now (a Qumetrak 142) and it has
track-to-track seek time of about 12 ms.  As long as the interface board
does the 5-1/4" ID when the system queries the drive, I think that the
trackdisk.device will automatically use a slower seek time.

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