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Offline crystall

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I tried it a while back and it was dog slow but consider that my X-Surf was stuck in a Z2 bus board so I think that's to blame too for its very low performance.
 

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Re: How fast is the ide port on a Xsurf for using a harddrive ???
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2003, 06:04:56 PM »
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We must consider that it is a software  emulated IDE port.


I didn't knew that, sounds cool :)

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A good bonus, like emergency host port . . . for free :-)


I used it for that purpose since I have SCSI drives/cdrw, it is easier to access than the internal IDE controller. The A1200 internal connector still needs that horrible adapter cable and it is deeply burried under my Z2 daughterboard :)