Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Quick question on floppy deviation. Everytime that I use superformat
> to format a floppy, it does a little warmup test and tells me to set a
> deviation flag in /etc/driveprm. Well, before I did that I tried again and
> superformat gave me back a different number for the deviation.
> The question: When the tested deviation varies with every run, is it
> time to get a new floppy drive?
superformat tries to find an interleave factor so that the fd
gives best performance on your system.
So it has to measure some times. As a multiuser, multitasking system
is not very well suited for such a task it is likely there are small
differences in the outcome every time you run it. I guess it even
depends on the load (or the number of interrupts during the measurement).
This is normal.
Jens
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