FastATA 1200 MK-IV Available For Pre-Ordering

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The new version of FastATA 1200 will shortly be shipping from AmigaKit.com.

FastATA 1200 is the most advanced IDE interface for the Amiga 1200
computer, providing up to PIO-5 performance and LBA 48-bit
compatibility.

Continuing AmigaKit's commitment to sponsoring development of Classic
Amiga hardware, Elbox have manufactured a new production run of this
popular IDE interface.

FastATA MK-IV is natively supported in the new AmigaOS 4.1 Classic.
It is also compatible with the older AmigaOS 3.0, 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9.

Includes the latest AllegroCDFS v3.6 and ATA3 v10 driver software.

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Any chance of a DMA version?? my Z3 fastlane does DMA. Would be far better thnan maxing out the CPU for data transfers

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In my experience with Classics, Deneb, and DMA vs. PIO, you really don't gain much by using the Deneb in DMA mode.  When you are driving these devices so fast on the Classic systems your CPU is still being used quite a bit and DMA vs. PIO is about a 5% difference in CPU usage.

It's a general lack of CPU horse power and other sub-system slowness (like Zorro III) that are more of an issue.  My recent networking tests using a Deneb in DMA mode (OS 3.9) and PIO mode in AmigaOS 4.1 Classic showed only about a 5% drop in CPU usage in DMA mode.

Huge difference for me on SCSI Vs IDE. 60% almost. oh, and the SCSI is faster copy to and from RAM. consderably.

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I did a quick test using the updated diskspeed program from Joerg Strohmayer:

AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, Deneb PIO Mode: 3.55 MB/sec, 96% cpu usage

AmigaOS 3.9 BB4, Deneb DMA Mode: 3.866 MB/sec, 41% cpu usage

So you are correct with hard disk transfers - DMA does make a larger difference.

Same disk in the same machine with the same partitions under AmigaOS 4.1 Classic and AmigaOS 3.9, using FFS2 (DOS\07).

I was 28% CPU but meh, not a big deal oh and around 6MB a sec but been a while since i re-tested. That was a Z3 Fastlane with Segate 540 MB SCSI2