Individual Computer's USB module

[slaapliedje]

Last I looked at Poseidon, he'd open sourced it.  At least I'm pretty sure that was the case.

My question is.. how can it possibly get the full 480Mb/s?  The Amiga's buses couldn't handle that, could it?

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

You'd really be limited by your hard drive controller speed.  I have a Spider card in my A4000, so once I work out my issues with. The FastATA card, I'll have to do some benchmarking and see what actual speeds one can get.

Now if only there was a way to boot straight off a usb device.. Oddly it'd probably be faster than the built in ide controller.

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Hmmm, I found this;

http://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=909

Poseidon is under APL (Aros Public License).

Then also found this;

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61556

I'm not very familiar with the APL.  Looks like it's based on the MPL, but I'm not 100% familiar with it either.

Still not sure how/why someone would purchase the source, but hey why not, eh?

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Bah, these are really old posts, so possibly irrelevant now.

slaapliedje

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Nice!  Do we know if there are any other differences between 4.4 and 4.5 besides the new driver?

I'm asking only because I finally got my Amiga all set up correctly (though randomly it seems to have a "run Program failed (error #80000003) Wait for disk activity to finish." error when starting up, or rebooting), and wondering if there are bug fixes, or more drivers available.

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