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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 20 meg. floppy drive
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.170842.11876@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 17:08:42 GMT
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From article <27aef7f6-244e.2comp.ibmpc-1@point.UUCP>, by akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff):
> I find nothing wrong with it. I use high byte floppies for HD all the
> time. In fact, I don't mind switching those little 3.5 disks anyway. As
> long as the disk drive is 60us or so access time, I don't mind at all.
                              ^^
I think that's ms for milliseconds.  Doesn't the floppy need 1/2 second
or so to spin up to speed *every* time you need access (unless you are
using a write-back disk cache)? 

> Bear in mind that I don't usually load more than 640K in my computer. So
> maybe this is why it doesn't bother me.

Does it "wear out" the floppy disk surface?  Does it make significant noise?
Maybe I was wrong.  Please let us know.