Rapid road is a very nice piece of hardware.
It realy runs great with cardreaders, USB sticks, DVD,CD, Usb2Midi, mouse ..
In an a1200 with 030 you can't play MP3 ;( But i'm able to play mod's with ahi and my USB soundblaster but not on high sample rates. I still prefer Paula for this
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The speed is nothing to compare with my deneb (ZIII DMA mode) but it can handle the same devices stable, and even more!
My external dvd-rw won't run on the deneb. It drains to much power. So the USB port gets disabled sometimes, then only a reboot helps to get the port enabled again. So i just stick with my SCSI cd-rw
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But on the RR the same external DVD_RW runs great and is just as faster then my cd-overdrive (its on old 4x cd-rom)!
So power hungry USB hardware will work more reliable on a RapidRoad. The deneb has to get al its power from the bus-board.
On the Deneb you can play MP3 through a USB SB-Live, but since its using a software decoder, i cant get 44.1Khz stereo too on my 060@50Mhz. But 22Khz runs fine.
I want to order another RapidRoad to use on the clockport of my X-surf-II for the more power draining USB devices, but i dont know if it will work togheter with my deneb.
The deneb is using a "special version" Trident 4.4, and the Rapid road is using a "Special version" of trident 4.5. The software does hint it can handle multiple devices.
Dont want to open my amiga's to much, but maybe someone already tried this?
