[Coco] CoCoNet status, almost 1 million sectors read without errors

[Roger Taylor]

At 07:08 PM 12/8/2008, you wrote:
>At 07:29 AM 12/8/2008, you wrote:
>>Roger, just a quick question.  Will this also be available on a coco floppy?
>
>Might as well.  It needs to be offered on any media needed by the user.
>
>Ready for some good news, guys?  I started last night's test about 
>10:30pm or so, and it's 7:02pm the next day, 716,000+ sectors have 
>been read at 115.2 kbps on a CoCo 2 without errors.  Sometime 
>tonight 1 million sectors would have been read without any errors, 
>which is what I call "satisfactory".  At this point I can leave the 
>low-level serial code alone and work on the wrapper and protocol 
>code for making all the neat things happen you'd expect over a 
>network between two computers.


P.S. the test loop is now at 740,850+ sectors, which is 189,657,600 
bytes (that's almost 2 billions bits @ 115.2 kbps) reporting 0 errors.


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Roger Taylor

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