[Coco] megaread HOW TO ?

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Sun Apr 5 21:50:36 EDT 2020


So if you were running a BBS you would do much better with the Hard 
Drive.

On 2020-04-05 20:53, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> 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.
>> 


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