FastATA 4000 MK-VII CF/SATA controllers

[LoadWB]

I'm also thinking of getting one for my A4000 but dopn't use IDE /SATA much with it as only my boot drive is on IDE but all other drives are powered by my CS-MKIII onboard scsi

I keep thinking I would like to grab one, but I also have a CS-MKIII.  68-pin SCSI to SATA adapters are not cheap, especially ones that support hard drives.  I have one for IDE for my DVD-RW, but it only supports ATAPI devices.

I could buy the FastIDE and use an IDE-to-SATA adapter (or one of my IDE SSDs,) or I could find a 68-pin SCSI-to-SATA.

Decisions decisions.

[LoadWB]

I can give you a 27megs/sec reason to get an acard scsi to sata adapter.  Works great with the CS MKIII.

The IDE will be much slower and much more cpu intensive...

Spoken truth.  Even my 2000 has a Blizzard 060 with fast SCSI, and my 3000 has SCSI on-board.  I guess at some point I need to stop trying to justify the purchase and grab a new X-Surf, instead