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Originally Posted by roondar
That's interesting. Does that mean you shouldn't count on a given speed for the disk then? Or are any such changes going to be fairly minor (before the number of errors starts getting too high obviously).
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You must always start from the assumption that the rotation is at 300RPM. All the small variations regarding the bit cells length are (on read) managed transparently by Paula. Of course the speed changes cannot be too high but a 15% variation (or a little more) is tolerated. For the writing, well, you need a decent drive
If your drive write too many cells (so RPM<<300) and another drive on read rotate too fast (>>300RPM), or viceversa, it is likely that synchronization may be lost.