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Title: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: Kees on April 20, 2002, 11:44:11 PM

Yesterday ELBOX (http://www.elbox.com) released the NEW drivers for their  FastATA 1200 controller (http://www.elbox.com/products/fast_ata_1200.html).

Check it out by clicking here (http://www.elbox.com/news_02_04_19.html) ...

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: Chathurawind on April 21, 2002, 12:14:53 AM

Hi all PowerFlyer Users,

How the new Drivers works?

Are they Faster?

Do they work better with CDRW Drives?

regards,

Bosco

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: SteWhite on April 21, 2002, 12:36:21 AM

I've been using them a couple of days now. At first they seemed a
little slower on reading, but SysSpeed reports no difference. There
has however been about a 15-20% drop in Open and DirScan operations
per second, at least on my system. This is using PFS3, in case that
makes any difference to these things.

Can't comment on CD-RW performance since my CD-RW is SCSI.
However, if you are trying to use an IDE CD-RW and having problems
the docs suggest using Executive to improve the multitasking of the
drives.

Personally I am not using it since I have a BlizzardPPC, and last time
I checked Executive advised against using it on PPC systems. If this
has changed, are anyone is using it reliably with PPC, please let me
know.

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: System on April 21, 2002, 01:17:18 PM

Quote

are anyone is using it reliably with PPC, please let me...

Running fine on mine , my ppc is unstable cuz of cooling , but now i got that sorted executive hasn`t caused any problems.

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: SteWhite on April 21, 2002, 09:03:58 PM

Are there any specific tasks I should exclude it from managing to make
sure it works OK? (Defiant springs to mind).

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: Chathurawind on April 21, 2002, 10:41:53 PM

Hi All,

Does anyone on the group is using the FastATA1200
Controller (PowerFlyer), with a LiteON CD-RW
Drive?

As mentioned I have been able to used only in
PIO-0 with MakeCD (latest_Version).

Are there any special setting in the powerFlyer or
MakeCD to use a CDRW?

Regards,

Bosco

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: Chathurawind on April 22, 2002, 10:14:16 AM

mines setup as standard and unplayed with ... :)



68040

Title: Re: New drivers for FastATA 1200 Controller
Post by: jj on April 22, 2002, 12:45:01 PM

I have had a HP CDRW stuck on my powerflyer for some time, and the only way I have ever been able to get it to work is on PIO3.  Dont forget the port will run at whatever the slowest device attached to it is. So if u have got an old HDD on the same port it will bring the CDRW down to that speed