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From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
Subject: Re: More annoyance on the DMA problem
Message-ID: <jmonroyCBp5Ks.CM3@netcom.com>
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 12:05:15 GMT
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>> From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
>> Subject: Re: More annoyance on the DMA problem
>> Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven
>> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 09:39:00 GMT
>>
>> 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
>>
Correct. The ultimate in miscalculations on my part.
I have errored. I am human.
At times I must communicate with non-humans,
this may not include yourself. As I have no evidence of this.
Again, I have errored.
OK...32 sectors per second.
66,287 / 32 = 2071 refreshes per sector transfer.
1 / 32 = 0.03125 second per sector transfer
Gee! Thanks for the correction.
This makes the new index 5. The numbers match exactly.
MY POINT IS THE LOWER HARMONIC OF THE DMA REFRESH
COLLIDES WITH THE FDC TRANSFER.
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