On Fri, April 25, 2014 10:25 pm, Jim Brain wrote: > On 4/25/2014 1:22 PM, Ingo Korb wrote: >> "smf" <smf@null.net> writes: >> >>> I guess commodore dropped the ball again as the 1571 connected to a >>> zoomfloppy can run really fast. >> As far as I can tell from occasional postings on various forums, the >> Zoomfloppy/1571 combination seems to suffer from reliability problems >> and the usual advice given is to use a very short, high quality >> cable. Therefore it appears that Commodore did not "drop the ball again" >> but instead chose reliability over speed, which most sane companies >> would do in this situation to reduce support costs and to avoid the >> impression that their products are unreliable. >> >> -ik >> >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > We probably (if it's not an option already) should have an option for > slowing down the SRQ transfer bit rate to create a "known good" transfer > speed with flags to speed it up if it works. Arnd Menge wrote that code, but as I recall, it has to get a byte on or off the disk in less than 32 cpu cycles (possibly ~64 in 2MHz mode), so I believe it was tuned how it needed to be to replace the parallel cable. I doubt it could be slowed down... -Pete Rittwage Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-04-26 03:00:46
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