Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!adelie!infinet!munsell!klm From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin (my watch has a touch screen) McBride) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: StepRate ... a utility that makes your floppies FASTER! Message-ID: <1300@knopfler.munsell.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 13:48:21 EDT Article-I.D.: knopfler.1300 Posted: Fri Oct 16 13:48:21 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 08:43:53 EDT References: <15607@amdahl.amdahl.com> <1282@knopfler.munsell.UUCP> <1683@tekred.TEK.COM> <1794@cadovax.UUCP> Reply-To: klm@knopfler.UUCP (Kevin (my watch has a touch screen) McBride) Organization: 3.5" Sandpaper Co. Lines: 37 Keywords: trashed disk slow grinding death green eggs and ham In article <1794@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes: >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. WWWEEEELLLLLL, Keith. You should exercise some caution. StepRate is not without it's hazards. My drives seemed to be working fine at a step rate of 1800. They were much more quiet than before. Everything was going along fine until the gremlins decided it was time to trash my favorite WorkBench disk. BTW, my drives have always been extremely reliable. I've only trashed 3 or 4 disks in the 1 year that I've owned the machine. I consider myself lucky. Fortunately, I had made a backup copy of that disk only 2 days before, so the only bad thing that happened was some short lived aggravation. The disk that got trashed was not physically bad. I reformatted it, reloaded it from the backup and it's working like nothing ever happened. I upped the steprate to 2000 and that seems to be working fine. I hope. Maybe someday when my Ami grows up she'll have an autobootable 40 meg hard disk and I won't have to worry about the speed of my floppies... sigh. -- Kevin McBride | "Is that a real | harvard -\ I/O Software Group | poncho, or is that | ll-xn ---adelie----> munsell!klm Eikonix - A Kodak Co. | a Sears poncho?" | decvax -v talcott -v | Billerica, MA | - Frank Zappa | allegra ------------encore