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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> > 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
It IS worse! I know  that my floppies run about 14-15 kb/sec 
sustained. FTP'ing from a Linux floppy to FreeBSD (since my floppy drive 
doesn't work w/ FreeBSD) always goes about 14-15 kb/sec. dd gives similar 
results.


Kevin