[Coco] megaread HOW TO ?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I think one of the main reasons is that the IDE driver still allows some multitasking during that time, while the Drivewire basically shuts IRQ’s off during the transfer.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Apr 5, 2020, at 5:00 PM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks so I used:  date -t ; megaread < @/dd ; date -t
>       to find that my SuperIDE had a MegaRead of 17 Seconds.
> 
> Replaceing @/dd with @/x0  I found that the
>       JAVA drivewire server had a  MegaRead of 18 Seconds and the
>       PYTHON drivewire server had a  MegaRead of 20 Seconds, this
>       is through a USB port and with a 115200 baud rate.
> 
> I was surprised the Hard drive was not faster.
> 
> Charlie.
>