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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Staggered Tracks
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Date: 30 Mar 89 00:10:43 GMT
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In article <416@uncmed.med.unc.edu> rhunt@uncmed.med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt) writes:
>	Here is another entry in the 'questions you have answered a
>	thousand times ' contest.

	[Original question deleted...]

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

It is possible, but entirely unneccessary. You see, the Amiga begins 
reading the track when the head hits the media, when one revolution of
data is read in, it uses the blitter to convert from MFM bauds to 
ones and zeros, and then figures out where the block you wanted was. 
It never has to wait for sector 0.

--Chuck McManis
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