Setting disk drive seek rate to 2ms

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From: Takahiro Sajima
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 21:21

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I'm posting for a friend, please reply to him at
cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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Does anyone out there in Netland know how I can set my drive seek rate
to 2ms and turn the write verify off?  I used to use a program called
Schizo (1.3) to do this, but I would rather have a few lines of code in
my AUTO folder take care of it so I can save the 20K of memory.  This
will also help out a friend of mine who reports that Shizo.acc does not
work with the version of TOS 1.4 that was supplied in his developer's
kit.  (Well, it works except for the seek rate changer).  Also, is this
worth my time/energy?  Friends have informed me that changing the seek
rate to 2ms will speed up disk I/O.  Is this true?  Any information
would be greatly appreciated.  If you want to reply to me directly, I
am:  cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu.  This message is being forwarded for
me so please don't reply to the account it came from.  Thanks in
advance. 

Chris (just when you thought you were smarter than the machine) Mauritz
cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu

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From: sajima@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Takahiro Sajima)
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Subject: Setting disk drive seek rate to 2ms
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Date: 27 Apr 89 21:21:28 GMT
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