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   Tom Lake to All   
   Re: Model 4 double sided disk drives   
   04 Jul 08 11:07:42   
   
   From: tlake@twcny.rr.com   
      
   > It was the cable - I wonder what purpose the verify command serves in   
   > cp/m.   
      
   Just what it implies:  It does a read after write to make sure the data is   
   correctly written to disk.  At least some versions of CP/M didn't do that   
   automatically so they wrote very fast but errors could creep in.   
      
   Tom Lake   
      
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