billk@crash.UUCP (02/24/87)
There has already been some discussion about "Why the Amiga's floppies are so
slow" but a friend told me a bit about what the Amiga's drives were supposed
to be capable of doing.
I don't know if this is correct or not. If it isn't, well... sorry.
He said the Amiga floppy drives rotate the disks at 300 rpm.
" " " " " " can read one (1) track per revolution.
If the above is correct, that means the drive are *capable* of reading
five (5) tracks per second, correct?
That's what... Eleven 512-byte sectors per track? Five and a half Kbytes? Ok.
That makes it over 25 Kbytes per second, right?
Then (and I understand about the DOS routines and stuff being a bit slow) why
does it take so long to Kickstart? Wait... Hmmmm... That's ten seconds by my
figures. Gee. How long *does* it take to read Kickstart, anyway?
Oh, never mind.
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