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From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: More annoyance on the DMA problem
Message-ID: <1993Aug13.093900.10511@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
Keywords: DMA i8237 8254 
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 09:39:00 GMT
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jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

> 
>        The new FDC driver is reading a 1.44 meg diskette in
>        about 1 minute 30 seconds.  There are 2880 sectors on
>        a diskette of this size.  2880 divided by 90 seconds
>        is 302 sectors per second.    66,287  divided by 302
is it? 2880/90=32

-Guido