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Re: CF versus SCSI disk
« on: August 24, 2007, 05:01:57 PM »
CF on IDE will hit Zorro2 bus limit at 3.5Mbyte/ps and bring CPU performance penalty since it is non-DMA disk controller.

SCSI2 onboard 2060 has taller "ceiling" at 7Mbyte/ps or even more, but then it all depends on maximum sustained transfer within HDD. SCSI drives of that class had minimum sustained transfer rate of 3.2 - 3.5 Mbyte/ps.

This could be a tie...

However, you might get away with it if you get SCSI-to-IDE bridge and then add IDE-to-CF part on top of it. In that case you would benefit from best features of both 2 worlds:
- CF lower power consumption
- CF lower heat signature
- CF lower noise level
- CF higher shock resistance (transport)
- CF lower replacement costs
- SCSI interface highest speed on Amiga
- SCSI interface frees CPU from stealing cycles



A500+/KS3.1/GVPA530/2MbChipRam+8MbFastRAM 2GbCF/YAMAHA CDRW