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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: wa9yoz on April 25, 2007, 05:06:41 PM

Title: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: wa9yoz on April 25, 2007, 05:06:41 PM

Greetings all! Has anyone ever experimented with the "USB to IDE converter" on their Amiga?
Saw one for about $21 USD and just curious if it would be somehow compatible with the
Amiga that have the usb port installed.

Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: jj on April 25, 2007, 05:15:54 PM

Im pretty sure that the last update for poseidon stack added support for these adapters, or was that usb ---> ethernet

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Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: CannonFodder on April 25, 2007, 06:50:46 PM

I have seen USB2 adapters that let you connect a SATA2 drive.  It would be very nice if Poseidon supported these. :-D

Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: Thomas on April 25, 2007, 09:50:35 PM

Massstorage is one of the basic features of Poseidon. It certainly is supported, it always was.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: CannonFodder on April 25, 2007, 10:47:14 PM

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Thomas wrote:

Massstorage is one of the basic features of Poseidon. It certainly is supported, it always was.

Bye,
Thomas

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: Matt_H on April 26, 2007, 04:37:27 AM

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CannonFodder wrote:

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

Probably, if they're massstorage compliant.

Not much point to them being SATA, though, since the bottleneck will still be either USB1.1 speeds or Zorro/Clockport bandwidth. Results could be better on a USB2 board under Amithlon or MorphOS.

Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: CannonFodder on April 26, 2007, 11:41:10 PM

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Matt_H wrote:

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CannonFodder wrote:

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

Probably, if they're massstorage compliant.

Not much point to them being SATA, though, since the bottleneck will still be either USB1.1 speeds or Zorro/Clockport bandwidth. Results could be better on a USB2 board under Amithlon or MorphOS.

Or USB2 on a Mediator/Grex etc.

Title: Re: USB to IDE converter on Amiga?
Post by: Thomas on April 27, 2007, 08:24:37 AM

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Including these SATA2 adaptors?

For USB there is no such thing like SATA. It does not matter if you use a 64MB thumb drive or a 2TG SCSI RAID array, as long as it's connected through USB, the computer only sees one massstorage device of a certain capacity.

Only if the USB device is vendor-specific (which means that you have to install vendor-specific drivers, even on mainstream operating systems), then it wouldn't work on the Amiga.

Bye,
Thomas