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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: TheGoose on February 05, 2010, 07:02:34 PM

Title: CF PCMCIA card is way faster than my HD
Post by: TheGoose on February 05, 2010, 07:02:34 PM

I don't have a numbers right now to quote but after running speed test last night on sysinfo,
I found that my CF PCMCIA card was seriously faster than my HD which is a FLASH module like:

(http://www.amiga.org/forums/blog_attachment.php?attachmentid=10&d=1256168268)

Can that be? Take into account they are also different file systems (FAT16 vs FFS) But, sysinfo would not care about that would it?
We all know that the PC-slot is 16bits, but the IDE on a A1200 is 16 bits too? Or 32?


:confused:

Title: Re: CF PCMCIA card is way faster than my HD
Post by: Karlos on February 05, 2010, 07:44:49 PM

The built-in IDE controller on the motherboard is 16-bits wide.

Title: Re: CF PCMCIA card is way faster than my HD
Post by: Thomas on February 05, 2010, 08:54:09 PM

Quote

Can that be?

I guess the flash drive is designed to work best with high-speed UDMA controllers and not with an ancient not-even-pio-0 controller.

Title: Re: CF PCMCIA card is way faster than my HD
Post by: TheGoose on February 06, 2010, 12:43:43 AM

Quote from: Thomas;541733

I guess the flash drive is designed to work best with high-speed UDMA controllers and not with an ancient not-even-pio-0 controller.

The IDE reports 1,226,882 bytes per sec
The CF0 reports 1,975,959 bytes per sec (seen it go to 2M)

I got curious just because I could tell a difference open thing up from CF0: