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From: alverson@decwrl.dec.com (Robert Alverson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: StepRate ... a utility that makes your floppies FASTER!
Message-ID: <71@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 14:27:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: bacchus.71
Posted: Wed Oct  7 14:27:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 10:45:44 EDT
References: <15607@amdahl.amdahl.com> <1282@knopfler.munsell.UUCP>
Reply-To: alverson@decwrl.UUCP (Robert Alverson)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Keywords: grinding noise pitch control benchmarks sausages maybe

In article <1282@knopfler.munsell.UUCP> klm@knopfler.UUCP (Kevin (my watch has a touch screen) McBride) writes:
>One thing I did notice, there was a definite improvement in the
>sound quality of the "grindgrindgrind" noise that my drives make
>when I increased the stepping delay time.  The noise became much
>lower pitched and much quieter.  More like a pleasant purr than
>the usual annoying grinding noise that reminds me of going to the
>dentist.
>
>All in all, it's a real neat idea and I'm not knocking the program
>or it's author, but it just didn't seem to do anything for me.
>
I've been waiting for this for a while, now, since I kew that the
gind is caused by running drives at *too slow* a step rate.  In my
humble opinion, C-A blew it here in that they had to run it slow
to guarantee that (maybe with a 68020) the steps wouldn't go too fast.

For this reason alone, StepRate is worth it.  Any performance gain
is just icing on the cake.

Bob