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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: StepRate ... a utility that makes your floppies FASTER!
Message-ID: <1895@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 17:14:56 EDT
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In article <1794@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>
>Hey,
>
>This steprate thing seems like basically a good idea.  Not for speed,
>mind you, but because I can't stand how the drives sound.  They SOUND
>like they're being stepped too slow, and that's what drives me nuts.
>
>However, are we absolutely sure that running at a higher step rate will
>not cause a higher incidence of munged disks due to too marginal a
>setting?  I'd love to try it, but no way until I am reasonably assured
>it isn't going to munch my critical 'C' source disks etc.
>
>Keith Doyle

How can it wreck disks ? It wants something from track nn, so it issues
the approporiate number of 'steps' to the drive, after which it reads
it to make sure it is on the track it thinks it is on. If it is not,
this is a SEEK ERROR, and it should retry, otherwise its positioned
over the correct cylander.

Is this not the way it works ?

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