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From: rhunt@waco.med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt)
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Subject: Staggered Tracks
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Date: 29 Mar 89 17:14:41 GMT
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	Here is another entry in the 'questions you have answered a
	thousand times ' contest.

	I have never seen the specs on the disk format for the Amiga and
	can't find them anywhere cheap so I'll ask everyone.  On the ST
	there is a fairly popular utility called twister that staggers the
	tracks on a disk by two sectors.  The effect is that the disk only
	has to complete about 20% of a revolution to return to sector 0 to
	start reading the next track instead of having to wait until the
	disk does a full revolution.  This speeds up disk reading and
	writing by 80% or more for large files.

	My question is if this is possible or neccessary on the Amiga?  I
	sure would like to hear it gronk along twice as fast.

						Rick Hunt
						  
        I would be quite flattered if anyone took my opinion seriously.