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From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
Subject: Re: Has anyone written a Mac FS or Mac FS Access utilities for Linux or 386BSD?
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 93 00:52:14 GMT
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Ah, the Mac disk thread again! ;) If the speed changing disks for the Mac 800K 
format use speed <= normal speed of a PC drive, you could just turn on and 
off the floppy drive motor by toggling the control bit really fast. Higher 
duty cycle (% on), higher speed. It would be a trouble to calibrate, might 
act different on different drives (different speed vs duty cycle curve, 
might not work well, could possibly hose the drive (?), etc).

Linux has very fast interrupt handling, you could probably hook into the 
timer irq after upping the rate (ala the way the PC speaker device driver 
works)