Actually u could measure the position once, measure the rate of
rotation and then just correlate to the system clock... of course
doesn't work for ZBR disks :)
> > i think it was rsx-11 which used to format the disk to take into account
> > retational delays
> I've seen DOS floppy formatting programs that do that. Meanwhile, since
> hard disk makers have been bragging about sustained transfer rate for the
> past several years, I can guarantee they've skewed the tracks properly to
> optimize sequential reads across track boundaries...and not even a SCSI
> drive will tell you the value of this skew, AFAIK...
Yes, these kinds of optimizations are useful, and beyond our
knowledge.
-hpa
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