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Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies?
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In-Reply-To: <19970912232505.WA27195@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 12, 97 11:25:05 pm
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> > Umm. If timing is so critical, why do MS-DOS and Win311 work flawlessly
> > with it?
> 
> Timing isn't so critical.  Floppies are probably not Terry's strongest
> side either.

For single sector writes, starting later than you should is a bad thing;
the inter-sector gap, which is used to recognize sectors is hysteretically
shortened by loose timing.

But you're right: they aren't my strong suit in any case.  I tend
toward timing insensitive hardware and generally leave abominations
for those people silly enough to not step one step back when they
call for vounteers.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.