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From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 2ms and no verify
Message-ID: <2887@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 12 Mar 91 16:54:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar07.080136.28020@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: University of Iceland
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In <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?

If the drives step reliably at this rate that's fine, any decent modern quality
drive should handle this, but there are plenty of rogue drives around. I see no
use for switching verify off except for bulk copying to be bulk verified later.
If disks become error-free then verifying will no longer be necessary, but that
will never happen, will it. You don't save any time if you are busy repairing
damaged data by hand.
--
Adam David.