#: 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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