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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Downgrade the Amiga High Density standard
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 16:10:53 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- In article <4gvqdl$1kdn@rohcs1.uhc.com>,
- Michael M. Rye <1726@topcity.mn.org> wrote:
- [...]
- >Excuse me for asking, if this is a dumb question, but what on earth to
- >screen modes have to do with disk drives? Seems to me that a higher
- >frequency screenmode (>30 kHz as you suggest) would cause more DMA
- >bandwidth to be chewed up and, therefore, further disk problems?!?!?!
- >Hell, I dunno......which is why I'm asking.
-
- Disk DMA gets 3 words per line, at a fixed point in the horizontal blank.
- So whatever frequency you choose, there is always a slot for it. At 15 kHz
- that's 90 K/s, which is only just high enough for peak rate DD transfer
- (remember this is raw MFM/GCR data which is double the size of what you are
- actually storing). At >=31 kHz you can of course timetable double the transfer
- rate and handle HD disks at full speed.
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