That useless A590 switch 4!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

1: What transfer speed are you getting in SysInfo?

2:  Yes.  With the PCD-60 you can, anyway.  Don't recall offhand what the difference between the 50 and 60 was but Mechy's site should tell you.  I use a CF card as my primary "drive", and a second card (an old xD card I had laying around) as my backup partition.  

Side thought:  is 2.1 going to correctly support a 3GB partition?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hrm.  I'm getting about 2,100,000 with mine, but that could be down to the GVP controller being faster than the A590, or the type of card you're using.  I was going to ask the obvious question about if you have fast mem but see from your sig that you do.

If it's polling for a long time I'd go back to checking termination.  Is the card reader your only device?  Do you have the Termination jumper on on the bottom of it?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Mine has that same block.  ID 0 is to set the SCSI ID.  The pair of pins furthest from that is for termination.  See attached pic.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

HDToolBox worked great for me with mine.  If you disable the LUN support, won't you also lose the option to use multiple cards (think it will limit you to just the CF in the PCMCIA slot)?

Have you considered doing the 14MHz hack, @Mechy - think that might speed things up for him any?

There's some info on it here, with links to other threads for additional info:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=19260

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I've got SuperPlus working on mine, I use an external CD drive to transfer large files from my PC to my Amiga.  Just one re-writeable disc and I dump stuff on it as needed, and the drive was really cheap since it doesn't need to be anything Amiga-specific, just SCSI.  

SuperPlus is pretty awesome, but a bit slow @ 16 colors even with a 68030.  Hoping it will be a bit faster on my A2000 when I've got that project finished.  

Not sure if it helps but to fit the card reader inside my GVP chassis I removed the faceplate and the top cover, I also removed the internal fan that GVP used and had to clip out a small piece of plastic, drill my own holes for the studs, mod the "game" switch... yeah, it was tricky, I've heard it's easier in the A590.    I also stuck a heatsync on top of the large chip in the middle of the card reader as a preventative measure, but it doesn't seem to ever get very warm.  The "no PSU mod" works fine since the card reader draws hardly any power.

Here's an older shot of my system (there have been a few mods since this pic was taken), and a quick shot of my A500 running SuperPlus.  Lots of real estate!  ;-)  Normally I use a 654x482 NTSC overscan screen for better performance & less memory usage, however.

Love reading about your build, BTW.  It's almost exactly where I was a few months ago, so glad to help out if I can.