[Coco] Floppy drive speed tolerance

[Brian G]

On 2/18/2013 4:55 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> 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.
>
>

It's nice to have a number to compare to.
Thanks for the information.

-- 
Brian Goers