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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1382 |
Release id #160665 : Stepper Test 1.0
Copying the production notes below, but I'd really like to see some results from other people's drives for this one. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
The drive in my SX64
I haven't really read this thread very carefully, so a brief comment on what this graph tells about my SX64 drive would be much appreciated. |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1382 |
Frantic, the large black area at upper left means the optimal stepping time for your drive is a little higher than some of the others (you're looking at around 40 bycles/10ms), but it's well within the margins that current loaders rely on (12ms per track). More importantly the lack of a large black spike in the middle says your drive is much less likely than many other to stall for a bit when the normal stepping routine is being used.
So your drive's a little more consistently behaved than many, and is probably saving you a full disk rotation about one seek in twenty.
These results are mostly useful in the aggregate; they'll help tune the timing for improved stepper motor control in the next generation of loaders. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
Excellent commentary there, sir! :D |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2855 |
Quoting ChristopherJamThese results are mostly useful in the aggregate; they'll help tune the timing for improved stepper motor control in the next generation of loaders. "Next generation of loaders" \:D/
I've just added Shrydar Stepping® to the massively overhauled next version of my loader, which is now seriously scratching on the 7 KB/s mark for uncompressed files.
I'm now looking at all these graphs, trying to find the optimal T1 value with a given T2 ≥ 72 bycles (the block transfer takes 72 cycles per byte plus random IRQ/DMA delays).
What would be a good value that's also guaranteed to work across all drives? Want to avoid that Chasm of Death many of them exhibit. :) |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1382 |
Quoting KrillI've just added Shrydar Stepping® to the massively overhauled next version of my loader, which is now seriously scratching on the 7 KB/s mark for uncompressed files.
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Quote:What would be a good (T1) value that's also guaranteed to work across all drives? Want to avoid that Chasm of Death many of them exhibit. :)
Given the significant spike at 20-24 bycles exhibited by hedning's Oceanic, and the even heaver one further to the right on THCM's SX-64, I'd probably lean towards going as low as 12-16. For almost all of the drives, that's going to intersect the upper left diagonal edge (minimal total step time) too; most of them will be good to go another dozen bycles later, ages before the block transmission time is over :) |
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