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Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies?
To: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk (K.J.Koster)
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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