Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!sjuvax!jss From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.arch,net.dcom Subject: I/O consensus Message-ID: <695@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 16:33:31 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.695 Posted: Thu Nov 29 16:33:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 06:45:46 EST Distribution: net Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 18 [Aren't you hungry...?] Is there any general concensus about the best way to handle IO to slow devices? I have been thinking about building a board whose disk interface has a sort of staging area of 4K or so and then tells the processor its there and come get it... This would allow, for example, hard disk backup which happened in bursts at memory to memory speed rather than memory to disk speed. My plan is to put a separate processor and bus on the disk interfac and connect these to the main bus through an IO port. Any thoughts/suggestions? Jon Shapiro P.S. if this is a repost, I'm sorry. Forgot to sign my name to the first one, but I cancelled it before it left the local site, so hopefully it won't go out.....?????