On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
> Now, IIRC, the last ST506 drives had 16 heads. So that's 16*128K =
> 2Mbytes of data for one cylinder (and we need enough SRAM to buffer all
> that, since we need to be able to switch heads fast (there's no 'seek
Are you assuming that the host is able to read that much data in the span
of one disc revolution? Something tells me that it would require multiple
passes for an old 286/12 to read an entire 2MB track from a hard disc, not
to mention the other limitations of bus speed, interface width, etc.
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