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DesertFOX on Nostr: I recently learned that, even working with modern 3.5inch disks, not all drives are ...

I recently learned that, even working with modern 3.5inch disks, not all drives are equally useful for all use cases.

I mean, I really love this SONY MPF920, made in August of 2009. It looks really modern with its circular power led and - for a regular floppy drive - it's reasonably fast. Turned out, it's too fast. Because it spins each disk at 360rpm, compared to the regular speed of 300rpm. This usually isn't a problem with 1.44MB HD disks, but it causes all kinds of headaches using Amiga and Macintosh disks and tools.

Today, I had to re-dump this "Blockout" game disk for Amiga, because the 360rpm stream I recorded a few weeks ago was running into all kinds of issues with keirf's disk-utilities. When I used one of my older, 300rpm drive, it just works!

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