Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 03:41:29 GMT From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509120341.WAA29889@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <199509121259.MAA16918@thumper.osix.com.au>
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In article <199509121259.MAA16918@thumper.osix.com.au>, Peter May <peter@osix.com.au> wrote: >Just think of the buffer size you would need in the FD driver! At >least 26k of memory PER TRACK READ. Commodore managed it in a machine with only 512K total RAM. >And what about error detection? >Are we going to have the driver do CRC checks on data fields as well? >That should speed the performance of this already flaky driver up no >end! :-) Who said it'd be fast? It'd just be a cool way to upstage Microsoft.
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