At 15:01 20/04/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Dunfield wrote:
>> I also found a program called WRITEATA which tries to write Atari format disks on
>> a standard PC drive. It has trouble due to differences in drive speed and the fact
>
>"DIFFERENCE IN DRIVE SPEED" ??!?
>
>What speed do the drives of your Ataris run at?
A standard PC drive runs at rotational spindle speed of 300 RPM.
According to the FAQ's and some of the documents included with the various Atari<>PC
disk transfer packages that I have looked at in the past couple of days, the Atari 1050
drive runs at a nominal speed of 288 RPM.
The disk copying package that I managed to download and boot included a drive speed
test - my drive weighed in at 287 RPM, so it would appear that this information is
correct.
Regards,
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Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 18:56:35 BST