[Coco] Thought

[Mark McDougall]

Eric J. Rothfus wrote:


> It really depends upon the size of the USB transfer.


USB transfers are 64-byte packets.


> Especially those that have been engineered to

> depend upon timing or other behaviors of the floppy (copy protected

> diskettes).  


Granted. But if you assume that the seek time(1) of a floppy drive is always
going to be enough to cover the latency of starting a USB transfer, you
should be able to buffer enough data at the device end to ensure you don't
get a buffer under-run during a sector read.

(1) I would imagine the timing would have to be fairly tolerant for seeks
given the variable step times for different drives???

Regards,

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