[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

[Roger Taylor]

At 07:25 PM 5/18/2010, you wrote:
>At 04:28 PM 5/18/2010, you wrote:
>>Gene,
>>
>>/X0 is stock DW, open source. Take a peek.
>>
>>As far as being slow...
>>
>>Provide some benchmarks from your system. The proof is in the 
>>pudding...results are where the facts are.
>>
>>I know what the numbers are and will be. Then you will rethink your 
>>statement a bit. :)
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Mark
>
>
>Actually, he won't, Mark.  And I'll tell you why.  You're trying to 
>compare the best storage solution around for the CoCo with things 
>that aren't.    ;)
>
>And we've all seen diesel trucks win the race in the long haul.  But 
>this isn't a race or competition.  I've got a different solution 
>here and I'd appreciate it if people didn't compare it to other 
>"things" that don't do the same thing.
>
>The CoCoNet ROM is a smart ROM and I've paid the price to make it 
>work on every CoCo and all devices with no configuration 
>requirements, and I also take pride in the mini paks that use the CoCoNet ROM.


I forgot to mention, on this firmware benchmark thing: the early OS-9 
drivers for the Drive Pak read card-LSN0 on each sector transfer, so 
there was 1024 card bytes read for every 256 CoCo bytes 
requested.   Today's driver cuts that in half.  Tomorrow's driver 
will cut that in half when I move to the deblocking scheme.  If I can 
get the megaread (not really a good tool) down to 1:09 or so, I'm 
happy with this, but I won't trade a single bit of quality or 
stability just to meet somebody else's expectations of what a false 
benchmark should show.



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~ Roger Taylor