Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucselx!maxc1553 From: maxc1553@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent - human1) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: What do you put in your Startup-Sequence? Message-ID: <1991Apr29.201147.15823@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Date: 29 Apr 91 20:11:47 GMT References: <1991Apr24.192849.12855@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 28 jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >>Speedup changes the rate your floppydrive reads the floppy. It can be used to >> speedup your floppy read/write by 2 times. >HUH? TWO TIMES? What exactly does it do? Sure. In the doc of SpeedUp, it points out that commodore's trackdisk.device (or something) has a un-documented place where you store the floppy drive step-rate. (again the docs) StepRate is the time for the floppy drive read/write head to move from one sector to another..(if I re- membered correctly). Because commodore use a variaties of floppy drives for their A500 and A2000, they slowed down the read so that the flaky drives will work although the better drive mechnisms could actually read/write faster without problem. (sucks, huh?) Anyway, this little program will let you change the stepRate, depends on the floppy drive you own. trial and error will eventually let you push your floppy to the edge, but not over the edge. I'll try to find the doc for it. re-archive it, and upload it to abcfd20 /incoming/amiga. -- [unify] ************************************************************************* * All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. + *-----------------------------------------------------------------------+