[Coco] Floppy drive speed tolerance

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Mon Feb 18 17:55:26 EST 2013


Brian G wrote:
> I know the floppy 5 1/4 inch drive speed is 300 RPM. But what is the high and
> low limits?
> I can not find the specification for it. You can reply privately if you wish.
>

Generally 300 RPM +-1.5%.

That's so that any other drive can read the disk. If your drive is further off, 
It will work but the disks will not work on other correctly set drives.




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