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echo: cis.tandy.coco
to: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274
from: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
date: 1990-06-17 20:32:48
subject: #4443-Drive stepping

#: 4459 S10/Tandy CoCo
    17-Jun-90  20:32:48
Sb: #4443-Drive stepping
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274

It depends on what you're doing. Programs seem to take a little longer to load,
often because of the CRC checking being done to make sure it's a good program
load.

If you don't have some commands in memory (like list or load or dir), then
using those ("list /d1/file") would seem to move the disk around more because
first List must be loaded and then the target file accessed.

Otherwise, no, you really shouldn't see much diff. A hard disk is so much
faster that you won't notice stepping around that much, btw.

Hmmm. Got an example or two of something which seems to step the motor more?

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