I'm seeing that the Buddha IDE controller is pretty cheap. I'm just toying with the idea of buying one in to put in an A2000. But how good is the performance in a Zorro II A2000? I ask this, because I also have a 68040 card in the A2000 that has lots of trouble doing DMA tranfers between its 32-bit RAM and controller cards on the Zorro bus. With the old A2091 SCSI card it was very slow at transfers until I got a GURU-ROM (which was one of the things that died after about 8 years of good service), which relieved things somewhat (it still wasn't a speed demon - I could only burn a CD at 2x maximum for instance).
The Buddha description says something about using PIO mode....which I understand is a very slow transfer method from my experience of when the A2091 had to kick back to that mode to communicate with the RAM on the 68040 accelerator card.
Has anyone used a Buddha in an A2000? Are there any drawbacks to the Buddha controller - I've read there are some problems with SD card compatibility?
Also what is the latest version of the Buddha card? Some dealers have the "Gold" version, some have the "Pheonix" version....
Thanks.
