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From: abh@POGO.CAMELOT.CS.CMU.EDU (Andrew Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Question about ESDI Disk Controllers
Message-ID: <747@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 88 18:28:28 GMT
References: <788@aucs.UUCP> <794@vixie.UUCP>
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: Speed Interleave
Summary: disk rotation

In article <794@vixie.UUCP>, paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes:
> ...  If you use 1:1 and the rest of the
> system can't keep up, you wait 1/3600th of a second for the next sector to
> come around AGAIN when you're ready for it.

	Disks usually rotate at 3600 rpm, so you'd wait 1/3600 minute,
or 1/60 second.