Limiting the CPU usage of the IDE port

[AmigaMance]

  Hello.
 Is there a way to limit the CPU usage of the A1200's IDE port? Without buying new hardware of course and even if it means that it will be slower.
 I tried the idefix patch it doesn't seem to do much.

[AmigaMance]

I see.. Thank you both. Just for the record, my intention was to be able to copy large files across partitions and still have a usable desktop.

[AmigaMance]

I thought that all disk ops in all workbenches are BLOCKING operations. Without patches you cannot do anything whilst copying files from one partition to another.

 They are not blocking if you are using AsyncWB. And anyway, I'm using the CLI frequently for things like file transfers.

I thought that Scalos and Executive are two "patches" that allow non-blocking file I/O

 Correct for scalos (and for puting the word patch inside quotes :-)). Executive is something completely different from what you say.