floppy drive speed

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From: Rich Gopstein
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 13:46

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  I have noticed that some IBM/PC floppies are faster than others of the same type.
I recently installed a 720k 3.5" floppy on my ATT 6300.  The drive seems very slow to me.
What would cause a floppy drive to be slow?  I assume that all floppies of the same
density/size spin at the same rate, so it must be seek time...

  If it is seek time, does anyone have a list of seek times on currently available
drives?  I'd like to get faster drives in the future.


  Thanks in advance for any info.

-- 
Rich Gopstein

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From: gopstein@soleil.UUCP (Rich Gopstein)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: floppy drive speed
Keywords: PC floppy speed
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Date: 1 Dec 89 13:46:24 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Somerville, NJ
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