Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:35:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk (K.J.Koster) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Message-ID: <199709120935.LAA03134@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970912111624.26976D-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk> from "K.J.Koster" at Sep 12, 97 11:22:15 am
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> Wild guess: driver needs to recalibrate every once in a while, so if you > write a whole floppy at once, it slowly loses calibration. MS-DOS > `recalibrates' by writing the FAT every block or so. How does that sound? I doubt it writes the fat so often, performance would be much worse than the 30-40K/s we get now... Luigi
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