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Offline QuikSanzTopic starter

4000T IDE Speed
« on: October 11, 2017, 02:56:01 AM »
Looking to use a CF boot drive. I have read the speed is only 2.5Mb/s, a bit slow for a boot drive! Is it a correct number?
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Offline QuikSanzTopic starter

Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2017, 03:28:06 AM »
Not so sure at that speed. 500Mb partition with every patch on earth should load in around 200 seconds at that rate. 300Mb in 120 Seconds.
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Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2017, 04:52:36 AM »
SCSI CF drives I've seen are just as slow. Maybe spend money on a Fast ATA MKVII. It may still load the CPU but only at boot.
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Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2017, 04:38:20 PM »
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;831621
CF = slow
Built-in IDE = slow

What do you want? Want fast? Get an accelerator with onboard SCSI. :D


It has a CSMKIII, a 500Gb SATA will be on that SCSI & a CDRW on the SCSI2.
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Offline QuikSanzTopic starter

Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2017, 04:43:33 AM »
Amigakit won't answer a request for info on transfer rate of "4GB CF IDE HARD DISK DRIVE" from sales, they want me to contact support for that even though I have not bought it yet. I can't even get there due to an old certificate. I think I will buy from "Amigastore.eu". Specs published!
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Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2017, 01:47:07 AM »
Amigakit answered. Fastest is 6Mb/s. The one at Amigastore.eu is 16.6Mb/s and is $3 less. Big difference.
« Last Edit: October 13, 2017, 01:50:10 AM by QuikSanz »
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Offline QuikSanzTopic starter

Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2017, 03:24:40 PM »
Quote from: zipper;831704
You don't, FastATA connects to ZorroIII or A1200 mobo chips.


Yes. Actually the CF adapter can go as high as 20Mb/s but then I would need an ACard UWSCSI to IDE adapter and would likely cost $100 more than a Fast ATA card. Does not seem worth it for 3.4Mb/s more.
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Offline QuikSanzTopic starter

Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2017, 04:29:34 AM »
Quote from: mechy;831731
yes that is correct speed for ide. pio2 mod can net you a bit more but requires soldering. amiga stock ide is horrible.

 The scsi makes better sense but onboard scsi was not blistering fast either. the best solution is a warpengine or phase5 accelerator with scsi,but i guess you dont want to spend a arm and leg.

acard AEC-7720U scsi to ide bridge will allow cf on the scsi,this works well,but cost is a issue of course.good for around 5MB/s or so with synchronous scsi mode enabled.

as for small programs-not all are small, drive speed does make a difference, if you deal with video files, mp3's pics,etc. they are bigger than 2MB. Some files i've messed with are easily 100MB and loading on slow ide is torture.

Refer to post #7 above for hardware, Was not really in to paying for another ACard bridge.

As a new tidbit, there is an option to get a FastATA 4000MK VII kit with the CF adapter and a SATA converter but cant find it.
« Last Edit: October 14, 2017, 04:59:46 AM by QuikSanz »
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Offline QuikSanzTopic starter

Re: 4000T IDE Speed
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2017, 11:51:40 PM »
Made up my mind. Bought 2 Elbox CF adapters, Hope 1 works with A2000 w/V4 and a     
FastATA 4000 MK-VII for the 4000T. Should be nice.
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