Linards Ticmanis wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:(I hope I didn't get the details wrong--this is from memory. ;-)I think this is correct. One might add that the formatting routine will further reduce the gap size (and write the track again) if an overlap happens on subsequent track; that's why sometimes you will hear it stopping twice as long on some track as on the others.
That makes sense. I've never actually heard it do that. ;-)
I assume the drive would usually spin slightly faster when the head is on the inner tracks, since there would be less drag.
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