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From: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Question about ESDI Disk Controllers
Message-ID: <796@vixie.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 17:48:05 GMT
References: <788@aucs.UUCP> <794@vixie.UUCP> <747@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco
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Keywords: Speed Interleave

In article <747@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> abh@POGO.CAMELOT.CS.CMU.EDU (Andrew Hastings) writes:
#>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.

I knew that :-).  Ooops.  1/3600th of a second would be pretty fast, and
nothing to complain about...  Sorry, folks.
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