A4000D vs. A1200 IDE speed

[arttu80]

Hello!

Just wondering, IDE on A4000, is it really THAT bad? I have A4000/040 machine with 16Gb CF IDE drive and newest 3.1.4.1 filesystem in it. The other machine is A1200/030 with 4Gb CF IDE drive and PFS filesystem in it. I ran SysInfo 4.0 drive speed tests and was surprised that my A1200/030 HDD was faster that A4000/040.
My DH0 partitions were 1,6Mbytes/sec (A4000) vs. 2,2Mbytes/sec (A1200) and larger DH1 partitions were 1,5/3,2 resectively. Is there something to be done on A4000 or must I spend some more cash (again) on proper IDE interface?  I know there are some PIO mode upgrades available, but I'm not sure I'll want to solder any chips on motherboard. I have tried newest Buddha interface but it's only Zorro2 card, so no speed gains were made.

[TribbleSmasher]

Try a different benchmark, like
http://aminet.net/package/util/moni/RSCP
or
http://aminet.net/package/disk/moni/DiskSpeed42

And then i wonder, if you have a decent CPU card with local Fast RAM in your 4000 and not just the 3640.
The 030 in the 1200 has most likely Fast RAM and burst mode.

[arttu80]

Yeah, I'll give it a try with these benchmarks some time soon, but yes, it is bone stock A3640 card indeed. Quite a bottleneck, may I say.