#Nexus HD Controller ??
21-Feb-91 23:42:21
Sb: #15631-#Nexus HD Controller ??
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Ethan Solomita 70137,3271
Ethan,
The absolute maximum rate you can get the data off any drive
currently available for the Amiga (no matter what controller/CPU
combination) is a *sustained* rate of slightly more than 1 Megabyte per
second.
That is simply the maximum rate that the data bits come under the
head of a drive spinning at 3600 rpm with 35 data sectors of 512 bytes
each.
Burst rates can be significantly higher…but you can't sustain a
data rate any faster than the data comes under the head that's currently
being read.
Don