Has anyone bought one of these yet and tried it out?
I have the SCSI2SD (both 6 and 5) and they're OK, but, the fastest I can get out of them is 1.8mb/sec, even on my Blizzard 2060's SCSI controller.
The v5 is probably doing the best it can. Same with any SCSI controller that only supports the Async SCSI spec, which (theoretically) tops at 2.5MB/sec.
The v6 supports sync, and needs a few things:
- The SCSI2SD, if the setup tool gives you you the option, must allow for Sync
- The boot block needs to have the Sync flag set on the partition(s) you define on the Amiga. Typically it will be unset, meaning Async bus communications (speeds) by default.
- Check your Blizzard SCSI docs to see if there is anything else that needs to be set to allow for Sync SCSI.
- Double check your SCSI termination is correct. That's termination at both physical ends, and never in the middle. If it's off, you risk errors when it tries to transfer data.
Also, make sure you have the latest v6 firmware. It's still looks like a work in progress, but I saw ~2.7MB/sec on GVP Series II stock 68K machine on an A500 with GuruROM (omniscsi.device), vs 2.2MB/sec with both v5 and v6 in Async mode (and same Async speeds with FastROM v3/v4).
