On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
The disk read is the same, it needs to see data
from the disk surface to keep the threshold detection
circuit from having false detects from noise and random
level shifts.
Dwight,
Thanks for the clarification. It's very interesting, and does explain a
lot!
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