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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« on: August 21, 2008, 12:41:51 PM »
Great news about the upgrade.

I bought a FastATA4000 for my A4000 not long ago so I'm glad I can just do a ROM swap to bring it up to date.

Cheers Elbox.
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2008, 08:38:28 PM »
Well on my A4000D 040 25MHz with a Deneb and Cybervision also installed and running I was getting over 5 Mb/s in PIO 4 mode off a 80GB Seagate and a 80GB WD drive using SysInfo (FastATA4000 mk4).
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2008, 09:10:53 PM »
Of course, that could be a limitation of the old drives (a couple of ex-PC drives I had on the shelf), the file system (SFS) or the cables (robbed from an old PC).  I tried the drives with PIO mode 5, but they reported errors.
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2008, 09:13:02 PM »
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Poseidon would have everything but Elbox has no licence for their Spider so you are stuck with the demo version. Elbox can't deliver an own stack so Spider is useless if you have no key for Poseidon.


For USB 2 in a Zorro 3 (or 2) Amiga just get a Deneb.
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2008, 09:42:55 PM »
Good point.  :-)

I was fogetting the wedge machines (although there are Zorro adapters available for some) as this thread was originally about a Zorro card.
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2008, 09:51:43 PM »
@ Kreciu

Is that because your clockport in your tower is covered up?  I have 2 A1200 towers and one of them has the Power Flyer Gold IDE adapter in it which blocks off the clock port (and was a {bleep} for fitting an internal scan doubler).
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2008, 11:01:37 PM »
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Clock port is waiting for Delfina :). Can I use both a the time? Thank you for asking. BTW. Look at my case ;)


I can't make it out.  Do you have a link to a bigger pic?
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-V released
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2008, 02:01:19 AM »
@ DJBase  

However, in reality, your typical user will be more than happy with most fast IDE devices available.  I've used Buddha in the A2000 and A3000, Power Flyer Gold in the A1200 and the FastATA4000 in the A4000 and even though I also have SCSI in the A1200, A2000 and A3000 the IDE options are better for me because I have plenty of cheap, large and fast IDE devices littering my office without having to scavenge some dusty 4x SCSI CD ROM drive off eBay.

I think the user can live with a little extra load on the CPU for the time it takes to load a 256KB file or load Deluxe Paint.
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