Re: Commodore PLC TIB DD-001 / Drive 2001

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 14:27:17 +0200
Message-ID: <763605054.SuvWzGbNx5@rakete>
Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2018, 14:17:50 CEST schrieb smf:
> > You will not gain anything by using the various "DMA" modes on an
> > IDE/CF disk with a 1MHz 6502 system as the disk is faster than the
> > computer even in the disks slowest mode.
> 
> You would gain quite a bit. A 6502 copy loop will take something like 14
> cycles per byte to copy, while using DMA you should be able to average 1
> cycle per byte.
> 
> The fastest possible system would use another CPU for handling the file
> system and just DMA the data into and out of RAM.

in the chameleon the lowlevel block read/write functions are the bottleneck 
and speed limiting factor, indeed.

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