HELP! which EIDE controller should I get?

[mantisspider]

I am puzzled and slightly perplexed at to what to get for my new beast of an up n coming Amiga :-D

4xEIDE'99 interface
FastATA 1200
or the EyeTech 4xEIDE adapter?
i been trying to find some online reviews to help but im pretty stuck with what to chose. help please guys.

Stuff im gonna stick in:
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LS120 Drive
Zip Drive
4.3Gb Hard Drive
30Gb Hard Drive
CDRW
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Mediator PCI 1200 LX
Voodoo3 PCI card
Sound Blaster 128 PCI card
USB PCI card
Ethernet 10Mbps PCI card
PCI TV tuner card
PC-KEY 1200
Mroocheck PC Mouse Interface
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if only there was a PPC board being given away somewhere :-D

[mantisspider]

cheers m8,

I should have been a bit clearer, im currently running a 1240/40mhz on my box. not as great as a PPC.

thanks for the link, I cant find IDE-Express but i did find the following, is it one of these that you meant mate?:
Adapter, IDE splitter incl. IDE-MAX 97 (IDE-FIX) A1200 €39.00
IDE Splitter EIDE99 incl. Software/AllegroCDFS €35.00
IDE Splitter, Controller IDE Splitter A1200 €17.90
IDE-MAX '97 (IDE-FIX) €25.00
found them here

Does anyone know if the G-REX PCI busboard adapter can be used for an A1200 which doesnt have a PPC card? Thanks.

[mantisspider]

@bloodline,

hi m8,

i didnt think of that :-) cheers mate. might go for the one harddrive then. I think I will abandon the use of the ZIP drive. I have no idea where my external ZIP drive is. Its got to be somewhere.

Can the Amiga use a USB smart card reader? how about running the OS from a compact flash? that way no matter what damage I do to the harddrive the OS will stay in tact :-) only prob that CF only has a life expentancy of so-many writes before it starts to decrease in quality. So the OS will have to be set up pretty well to not need contstant changing.

[mantisspider]

oooh just remembered my Kumana....

i will use my external kumana for booting up games and a smart card reader to transfer files between my computers that arnt connected over the network. oh now that it rather nice.

one thing i do rather like about the PC is the way to edit the BIOS. would be nice to be able to do that with my amiga:
1st bootable drive = smart card reader
2nd bootable drive = external floppy
3rd bootable drive = DH0

hmmm my insaine reason behind this? well so i can stick my amiga games on a to a CF card and boot up the game from the smart card reader :-) and if i cant stick it on a CF i use the original disk in the external floppy drive :-D it makes kinda sense.... at 1am on sunday

edit:
just been looking at back2roots trying to find obscure games for my miggy. got me thinking, I remember a guy posting on here about trying to burn a compilation of games on to a CD. this would be pretty funky to do onto a compact flash card.
how to convert ADF files back to real amiga disks
might be a bit expensive giving todays prices, might be best to make compilation CD's instead.

[mantisspider]

cheers m8.

nah its a big chunky harddrive ;-)