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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: <1925@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 13:33:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1925
Posted: Fri Oct 16 13:33:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 08:38:53 EDT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Summary: I feel like Peter and his Midi question

In article <2499@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1794@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>> 
>> Hey,

Hey hey, my my.

>> 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.
>
>That's the rub.  By using the specified step rate or some slightly slower
>amount, one can assume that things will be as reliable as you can get.
>
>Rather then mess around much with the floppy drives, I'd seriously consider
>a hard drive, assuming you have the requisite $$$'s.  It's a different
>and better world.

(snide comment) So is being filthy rich.

>George Robbins 

Does this mean when the 68000 is finished issueing step pulses
and it's about to do a read/write, it doesnt check to see if its on
the track it should be/it thinks it's on ? 

How else could changing the *step rate* bugger up the data ?

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Richard J. Sexton
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