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punnerud 5 days ago

What was the new speed after the upgrade?

qayxc 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Since it's the still the same driver addressing the same hardware it should be identical.

Cthulhu_ 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

...it's a tape drive, they have mechanically fixed speeds. Why do you ask?

punnerud 4 days ago | parent [-]

He wrote “The tradeoff, of course, is that the data rate is limited by the speed of the floppy controller,”. Implying it could be faster by switching the controller. I guess tape drives could in theory have way way faster transfer speeds, as other tape drives does.