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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tandy(ack!) drive on Amy?
Keywords: external amiga drive
Message-ID: <54865@sun.uucp>
Date: 31 May 88 05:02:48 GMT
References: <1003@mit-caf.UUCP> <5842@pyr.gatech.EDU> <548@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <548@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
> I get soft errors if the drive head has to move several tracks at once.

This is characteristic of a drive that has a minimum head step rate that
is greater than 3 milleseconds. When stepping from one track to another the
head can keep up, but when you get to a bunch of tracks the head can't 
keep up an boom! error. Get a copy of 'StepRate' from the archives or from
one of the later fish disks and slow down the step rate to make those errors
go away. 

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