a small addition to the stuff said here:
if you get an FastATA (elbox) like i have then you will be able to attach 4 of thoose units and if you are as lucky as me? then the system wont hang either (when copying files etc) , what i did was , 1. blocksize to 1024... 2. SFS , 3. Maxtransfer set to 5.5 megs per sec.
i can get 6.8 megs with it at max (pio5 mode) but i fiddled with the maxtransfer id to let my system be atleast somewhat useable when moving/copying big files etc.
um oh and i have an 060 so all in all i am very happy with the fastata but i am also using scsi for the heavier stuff (get 7.8megs there) , and now i just recently ordered an ide2scsi unit so pretty soon i will remove my fastata i guess as i will be able to attach theide devices to my scsi chain.
in the past i have had an idefix express , it was great until it died, and i have an Eide99 in my cd32 sx1 which does the job very well all condisdered (price etc)..
hope this helped.
pps:you will get heavy cpu load if you dont fiddle witg the maxtransfer on any of the powerflyer(now called FastATA) and idefix express.
