On Sonntag 31 Oktober 2010, you wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:57:27 -0700 > > Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> wrote: > > We have been doing some robustness testing of the ZoomFloppy board. It > > uses a 7406 for driving the lines in order to be able to sink a decent > > amount of current to support multiple IEC devices on the bus. > > > > http://www.root.org/~nate/c64/xum1541/ > > > > What is the defined worst-case IEC bus configuration that we should > > support? I'd like a reasonable limit we can support while not adding too > > much delay for users of one or two drives. > > I'd say 6 devices is reasonable, but if the amount of delay doesn't > increase all that quickly with the number of devices you're willing to > deal with, go for something that no one in the real world is likely to > ever actually exceed - perhaps 8 or so. haha, i dont know but.... you and the other 2 people ..... personally i dont know anyone who - today - uses more than two drives (most infact are moving away from even that to 1541u or similar). and especially for a device like this, i think 4 would be more than enough. most probably wont even use more than one =P -- http://www.hitmen-console.org http://magicdisk.untergrund.net http://www.pokefinder.org http://ftp.pokefinder.org The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. <Albert Einstein> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2010-10-31 20:00:26
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