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Article #3697Re: Floppy Disk 1: 1 interleave ?
From: Duco Fijma
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 15:02
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 15:02
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In article <1992Oct6.062945.7158@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>, bmtong@cucs11.cs.cuhk.hk (Tong Bo-Ming) writes: |> It seems to me that DOS format disks with 1:1 interleave. When I |> call BIOS to read a chunk of disk sectors, it is so fast ! Is this |> true ? |> |> Tong Bo-Ming I think diskettes spin much slower then harddisks. Time enough to transfer all the data of all consequtive sectors during one revolution. Even with a 1:1 interleave. So, a diskette is fast, because is it so slow :-). But, anyway, this is only a guess. -- Duco Fijma tel. X31-53-893718 University of Twente fax. X31-53-893811 P.O. Box 217 internet: fijma@cs.utwente.nl 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands | No ugly pictures in this sig! |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!utrcu1!infnews!infnews!fijma From: fijma@cs.utwente.nl (Duco Fijma) Subject: Re: Floppy Disk 1: 1 interleave ? Message-ID: <1992Oct8.160208@cs.utwente.nl> Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl Nntp-Posting-Host: utis143 Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science References: <1992Oct6.062945.7158@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:02:08 GMT Lines: 20