Re: Possibilities for speeding/expanding standard floppies

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From: Dave Haynie
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1988 18:51

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in article <4705@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) says:

> The trackdisk driver keeps two checksums on each 512 byte block, but they're not 
> very good check mechanisms.  

Really, there's one checksum kept on the actual data area, and one on the 
private trackdisk space.

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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: Possibilities for speeding/expanding standard floppies
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Date: 12 Sep 88 18:51:43 GMT
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