[Coco] Introducing the CoCo-X

[Mark Marlette]

Frank,

Actually this is Gary's thread.....This has nothing to do with his project....Sorry Gary.....


Already done that. It is easy to have the CoCo's format on the SD. Not sure how often you actually xfer files to and from a device other than a CoCo or even a CoCo to CoCo transfer????? A computer can do it a million times faster than you could, even though the tools are nice to have, I personally would rather have those mundane tasks be performed by the computer at zero performance loss.

With that said, for me, it isn't about the path of least resistance. It is about learning. Having the CoCo do something that it hasn't done before. There is nothing new about having a SD, uSD, CF, SCSI, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, etc, as that is just media. Nothing new about having FAT transfers as there have been tools / utilities to do this in the past and still do work. What is new is having HARDWARE do this for you at speeds that you would get from RAM disk benchmarks. My target is ~10second megareads. Considering the overhead takes up 7seconds....... :) Still sitting in a development board environment. It proves the basis and provides a baseline but is far from optimal. Conventional serial protocols like this are very slow and the coco is faster than that.

Product requirement at Cloud-9....The CoCo has to be the slowest device when it come to media transfers.


I could say a lot more but will leave it at that...... :)

Regards,

Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com




________________________________
 From: Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Introducing the CoCo-X
 
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:16:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Marlette<mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer,
    the CoCo-X


Yep, that is easy.....Getting the CoCo to talk FAT FAST is a bit more challenging.....but...

I am always up for the challenge.

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Got tired of the long topic name!!

Why does it have to use the FAT format? Why not a format the computer can read/write easier? I know the first answer is going to be so a PC can easily read/write the SD card, but is that really necessary? Why not just write a utility to run on the (much faster/more powerful) PC to read/write the card and let the CoCo write in a fashion that it can do speedily??

-- Frank Swygert
Editor - American Motors Cars Magazine
www.amc-mag.com


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