Gvp impact a3001

[Olecranon]

I have an A2000 with a GVP A3001 card.  This is the card that has the IDE controller that doesn't work with drives with over 1024 cylinders.  Since I've never found a drive to work on the controller, I use a GVP HC+8 SCSI controller.

Would I gain any benefits (or is it possible) trying to use the IDE controller connected to an IDE CF adapter+CF card for a boot drive?

I've looked around and some of the CF cards in the 200MB - 400MB range have cylinder counts below 1024.

[Olecranon]

I have same card than you have. I don't have IDE rom in it, it didn't have it when I got card. So I don't have any actual experience, but I belive that with IDE rom there is a problems with Kickstart 3.1?

I ques benefit you will (possibly) get is joy of tinkering? I got Buddha IDE to it beccause there is plenty of working IDE drives, compared to old SCSI drivers and controllers.

My system has 1.3 in ROM, and then It loads a 2.04 kickfile.

The reason I'm wondering about this.

1) IDE controller is integrated with the accelerator.  Any speed improvement with this on a CF drive over a Zorro II SCSI controller?

2) My SCSI hard drive is fast (15K Cheetah), but incredibly loud.  I'd like to replace the drive with something slower/quieter.

What I'd like to do (if possible or worthwhile) is run a low capacity 200mb CF drive off the IDE controller and use that as the WB/Startup drive.  Replace the noisy cheetah drive with a slower and quieter drive for storage.

I'm not even sure if the A3001 IDE controller will work with a CF drive with under 1024 cylinders.