Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!jmpiazza From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re: Great big huge floppy disk? Message-ID: <1768@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 11:10:03 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1768 Posted: Wed Dec 24 11:10:03 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Dec-86 03:46:48 EST References: <736@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <1164@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 22 Keywords: cause of them diskcopy blues In article <1164@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > >... The blitter is used to decode [data from the read track], >usually a sector at a time, and it achieves this decoding in one >blitter pass (though as I recall, it takes three passes to encode the data). Which explains why copying disk to RAM: is so much faster than RAM: to disk. (I have a single drive system -- could you tell?) Flip side, joe piazza --- Cogito ergo equus sum. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 (716) 636-3191, 3180 UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!jmpiazza CS: jmpiazza@buffalo-cs BI: jmpiazza@sunybcs GE: jmpiazza