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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: two passes to write file? (was: Lousy input sound)
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Date: 21 Nov 88 01:04:25 GMT
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>Actually I heard from a very reliable source that it takes three passes to
>write a block.  Thus reading is three times as fast as writing.  The source
>also quoted the read speed as being something close to 900kB/s.  (using the
>new nomenclature :-)

Yep, it takes one to erase, one to write, and one to verify; however, the erase
is done when the machine isn't doing anything else, so it only takes two when
the time comes to write, usually.

								Ron