Re: Formatting HD disks as 800K volumes

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On Aug 27, 9:40 pm, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> > As far as I'm aware, HD 3.5" mechanisms of all flavors (Mac, PC and
> > other) _ALL_ use the HD hole to sense HD media and change the spindle
>
> HD 3.5in run at 300RPM(*).  It is HD 5.25in that run at 360RPM, and most
> do that even when reading/writing DD disks (at 300kb/s).

Actually once I'd posted this I realized I'd also forgotten that we
were talking Apple drives - Apple's DD drives used variable speeds
depending on where they were writing on the disk.