[Coco] floppy controller update
Chuck Youse
cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Sun Jul 6 16:13:39 EDT 2008
Hope I'm not spamming y'all, just trying to keep you all in the loop.
So I slapped together an OS-9 booter for the 82077 - I'll post it on the
web page shortly - and I can successfully load the boot file via the
controller. NitrOS-9 still craps out because it can't open /dd, but
that's for another day, I guess.
The only serious problem at this point is what can only be termed
abysmal performance. During the boot process, I'm only getting slightly
more than 1Kb/s (essentially 4-5 sectors/second) on the reads. I've
tracked it down to the period of time between when I issue the read to
the controller and the time it exits non-DMA mode (once the transfer is
complete). Ideas:
1. Interleaving?
2. Head load/unload times?
I wonder if anyone else has more experience with the nerdlies floppy
drives and might be able to lend some insight.
C.
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