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Title: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: AmigaFF on September 04, 2006, 01:54:35 PM

Does anyone know anything about the speed of buddha compared to other IDE devices. Right now I have a octagon2008(I think that was the name) in my A2000 and I'm not sure if buying a buddha would give me any extra speed, do you? (Maybe I'll bye one just for the extra compability with newer  HD's)  

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: orange on September 04, 2006, 02:55:42 PM

Octagon is SCSI so it should be faster. OTOH it lacks DMA, dunno if buddha has it..

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: MrZammler on September 04, 2006, 03:04:20 PM

Nope, no DMA in Buddha either (or in any other IDE thing in Amiga).

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: AmigaFF on September 04, 2006, 03:11:46 PM

Well. I had the similar product to octagon, Atbus2008 and that one is IDE. Anyway... Back to Buddha, anyone who know of the speed?

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: Hans_ on September 04, 2006, 03:17:14 PM

I have no idea about the speed as I've never used one of these devices. However, does anyone else think that the thread title would sound really strange if this weren't an Amiga forum?  :-)

Hans

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: spihunter on September 04, 2006, 03:25:17 PM

I have a Buddha in my A2000. I'll test the speed later today and let you know.

 I know its faster then the SCSI II on my GVP 030 board. But that could just be the old 100 mb driv I have on it.

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: Vincent on September 04, 2006, 04:29:11 PM

Quote

Hans_ wrote:
I have no idea about the speed as I've never used one of these devices. However, does anyone else think that the thread title would sound really strange if this weren't an Amiga forum?  :-)

Hans

I thought about making a quip about Buddha and the speed of thought, but couldn't word it right ;-)

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: spihunter on September 04, 2006, 11:20:21 PM

Well It seems that the modern 40 gb hard drive on the Buddha is about 3 times the speed of the old 100 mb scsi drive on my GVP 030 board.

Buddha/40 gb drive:  85 read/writes a second
GVP/100 mb scsi drive  33 read/writes a second

hope that helps

Edit:

I just looked at the specs on one of the amiga hardware sites that said the max transfer rates for each controller were

GVP scsi: 1.2 MB/s
Buddha IDE 3.58 MB/s

I guess that explains my numbers

You must have the AT-bus 2000 if its IDE

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: irishmike on September 05, 2006, 01:56:03 AM

But what is the speed of enlightenment?

Sorry couldn't resist :-)

EDIT:  But seriously, you guys trying out the Buddha, please let me know what you think (My post earlier:  Linky to Topic (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24364)).

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: AmigaFF on September 05, 2006, 04:28:20 PM

spihunter:
Thanks!
I better buy a buddha then   :-)

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: spihunter on September 05, 2006, 11:05:53 PM

@AmigaFF,

I have the Buddha ZII "s" class. Its a Buddha & Catweasel on the same card.

Its really a great card for adding cheap hard drives and PC floppy drives to your Amiga.

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: amigakit on September 05, 2006, 11:27:28 PM

Latest version of the Buddha is the Buddha Flash Phoenix Edition (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=486)- all other versions are now discontinued. It works with all Zorro Amigas.  

However we still have some limited stock of Catweasel ZII S-Class (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=548) - this expansion is combination of a Buddha Flash IDE controller and a Catweasel MK2 on the same card

Title: Re: The speed of Buddha?
Post by: InTheSand on September 06, 2006, 12:22:12 AM

Hi,

IMHO the "S-class" Buddha is pretty good - I got mine mainly for the Catweasel part, and having the ability to add a cheap and large standard IDE drive is even more of a bonus.

On my A3K, the speed of the IDE drive "feels" faster than the SCSI drive I've got connected to the internal SCSI controller - but that may be due to the SCSI drive being a bit of an old clunker!

 - Ali