Posted By
gerliczer
on 2013-08-06
02:19:11
|  Re: Z80 GUI: SymbOS
Hi MMS,
The hardware issue you talking about came up on the drive side therefore whatever they would've done on the computer side it wouldn't have helped. I remember something about the serial transfer portion of VIA 6522 not being reliable and sometimes omitting the last bit of data to be transferred.
I think that your assumptions about theoretical speeds of various drives are too simplistic. Regarding the Commodore drives, you could do similar test I described in one of my previous posts. plus4emu or YAPE do quite thorough job with drive and system emulation. Although a complete test would involve placing files into the disk images at different track ranges with different sector interleaves which consume significant time. If you are not willing to spend yours you should try to find someone who already done this. The Internet covers vast amount of knowledge on every imaginable and unimaginable subjects. 
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