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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 2ms and no verify
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Date: 10 Mar 91 13:09:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar07.080136.28020@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>I came across a utility recently that mentioned in its docs that to 
>speed up the floppy drives, you can set them to 2ms and no verify.  
>How reliable is this?  Does anyone out there have any experience with
>this?

I used to do this all the time.  I think Lars-Erik Osteruud has a
nice little autofolder program (when I say little I mean less than
1K!) to do the trick.  There are also other programs out there that
will work too, but it has been ages since I've used an Atari and
I've forgotten.

I never had any reliability problems at all and I used to format
my disks to 10 sectors/81 tracks as well.  The speedup is
definitely noticeable.

Cheers,

Chris
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