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Offline Darrin

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Re: SCSI madness
« on: April 24, 2011, 01:24:53 AM »
As someone who always seems to tear his hair out with regards to SCSI, I have one thing to say on this matter:  Buddha IDE controller or FastATA if you have extra spare cash.

You can prep and format your new IDE drive after booting from your SCSI drive (with PFS3) and then copy the contents over and keep your SCSI drive as a backup.
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Re: SCSI madness
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2011, 01:41:07 AM »
Quote from: commodorejohn;633309
Not really an option at the moment - I've already dropped a bit more on this than I should right now, and besides, I've got these perfectly good drives that I'd hate to see go to waste.


Fair enough.

I just have draws full of IDE hard drives, CD/DVD ROM drives and ZIP drives.  :)
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Re: SCSI madness
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2011, 10:42:24 PM »
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Thanks Franko, no rush. I have an IDE-Fix Express in my A1200, it's true with the '060 you really don't notice the slowdown as much. I've never had a FastATA but IIRC the raw transfer rate is something like twice the IDE Express.


The question is, does your typical Amiga user notice this huge transfer rate difference when loading/moving/saving less than half a meg of data?

The answer is... no.

So, unless you're doing some serious stuff, a cheapo IDE adapter with cheapo IDE drives works wonders.  :)
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