Re: C128D/1571 issue

From: Imre Széll <*iszell75_at_gmail.com*> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:28:16 +0200 Message-ID: <CAHFX3ZNuMD8wqM3VcsNvL-4WfTw2rq9FW+sp1BfW8bP=zGVxEw@mail.gmail.com> · iszell75_at_gmail.com

To gain more bandwidth by using an additional line?

Back in the time most of the people had one disk drive so this method
seemed to be a good compromise for performance. The few who had more than
one peripherals connected could turn off all the others.

2015-09-07 17:21 GMT+02:00 <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>:

> On 2015-09-05 22:57, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
> > * On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 02:37:42PM -0500 Justin wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be easier to change it to device 9? That was what I did to
> play nicer with my 1541U.
> >
> > There are fastloaders which assume there is only one drive on the bus,
> > and thus, they use ATN for transmission. This will fail if another drive
> > is physically on the bus, because the drive naturally reacts on ATN.
>
> True... sometimes I wonder what the dudes were thinking when they
> decided to just take over the ATN line :-(
>
> --
> SD!
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