Re: Floppy disk density

["steven" <kosto2@comcast.net>]

Slowing down the head SOME might have some impact if the particle/data
density was not fully utilized (aka if it was passing over twice as much
area as would REALLY be needed to store the data), but I imagine that as the
speed is slowed down, it would start to have some impact on the reliability
of the data at some point.

I imagine that they would have built in at least SOME amount of slack to
begin with, to up the "reliability" of the storage, but it would be hard to
say how much.. but 2X would be pushing it a bit, afterall, wouldn't they
have LOVED to have twice as much storage on those disks, IF it was just as
reliable? ;)

-Steven

"Paul Guertin" <pg@sff.net> wrote in message
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> If you slowed down the motor of a Disk II drive to half its
> normal speed, could you reliably write twice as much data on
> a standard, double density floppy disk (assuming a customized
> RWTS)? There must be a range of allowable speeds for a floppy
> drive, and I wonder how wide that range is. Has anyone here
> done any experimenting or read literature on this subject?
>
> Paul Guertin
> pg@sff.net