Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)

Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)

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• Subject: Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)
• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
• Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 18:30:06 -0900
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>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>>Why [should it be able to defrag]?
>>mels ESF never had a defrag utility...  :)
>
>it wasn't several hundred meg of data either.
>
>I don't know how fast the AVR can handle serial
>data, but assuming it could run at 100Kbps, it
>would take about 23 hours to backup and restore
>a 500 Mb drive.  The backup and restore would
>defrag the free space, but it seems like it
>would be much faster to have the AVR do it just
>by packing the data.

The AVR can go up to 600kbps in serial and 4Mbyte a sec on parallel.  HD to
parallel speed is about 2MBit.

Grant

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• From: "David Knaack" <dknaack@hotmail.com>

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