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Article #7455Re: 20 meg. floppy drive
From: ONG ENG TENG
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 17:08
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1991 17:08
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From article <27aef7f6-244e.2comp.ibmpc-1@point.UUCP>, by akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff):
> I find nothing wrong with it. I use high byte floppies for HD all the
> time. In fact, I don't mind switching those little 3.5 disks anyway. As
> long as the disk drive is 60us or so access time, I don't mind at all.
^^
I think that's ms for milliseconds. Doesn't the floppy need 1/2 second
or so to spin up to speed *every* time you need access (unless you are
using a write-back disk cache)?
> Bear in mind that I don't usually load more than 640K in my computer. So
> maybe this is why it doesn't bother me.
Does it "wear out" the floppy disk surface? Does it make significant noise?
Maybe I was wrong. Please let us know.
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