On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Laurens Holst wrote:
> >> So, no LDIR's needed and reading will be done at the maximum transferrate
> >> which you can theoretically achieve with a floppydisk controller.
> >
> >But my LDIR transfers only 2kb of data (just 4 sectors) and this happens
> >while the head is moved, so no time is lost!
>
> And you think slotswitching is slower than LDIRing 2048kB of data???
Of course not, but it's only 2kb (and not 2Mb as you just said), and this
data transfer happens only between head's movement. What Alex Wulms had
said is that MEMMAN does slot switching between SECTORS, and this
hinders the entire track reading in only one turn.
I use to take advantage of the time spent in move the heads to do the 2kb
data transfer. So, there's no time lost!
Greetings from Brazil!
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