A4000 IDE Shortcomings?

[jiffydos]

Hi All,

I recently aquired an A4000.  I was wondering what, if any, shortcomings the onboard IDE has, other than only allowing 2 devices.

I have a Buddha IDE card, but I planned on keeping that in my A3000 and getting a mediator 4000Di for video, network and sound.

I just want to make sure I am not going to loose a lot on performance because of the old IDE bus.

[jiffydos]

Are there any PCI SCSI or DMA IDE cards out there that work with Mediator?  

[jiffydos]

So the fastATA for the A4000 doesn't do DMA either?

But it's still faster?

[jiffydos]

OK... so... last question.

Is it possible to use a pci slot, and then a half size zorro card (like the buddha) directly behind it on mediator?  Or, does the PCI bus map directly to the zorro slot behind it, know what I mean?