Which IDE interface for the A1200

[Damion]

IDE-Fix Express is my recommendation. It's not as fast as the FastATA (which is still non-DMA anyway), but it's much easier to install, costs less and comes with a great software package. Your transfer speed will about double, and it uses a bit less CPU than stock IDE.

 

[Damion]

Retro_71 wrote:
Thanks for that. Another question which out of the three uses less CPU power?

All are non-DMA, so the differences are going to be negligible. I can't recall by how much, though my IDE-Fix Express did use *slightly* less CPU than stock or with the standard 4-way I had before.

Do you have an accelerator card? Depending on what you have, I may be able to give you an idea of how the IDE-Fix Express will perform (varies quite a bit).

[Damion]

Retro_71 wrote:
I have a corba 030 with 882 fpu, 32 mb ram

030 should generally get the best results. I get about 4 MB/s on my Apollo 030 card (quick SysInfo measurement), you should get similar (+/- a bit). Maximum theoretical is 5.1 MB/s, IIRC.

EDIT -- Another good way to tell -- check it with SysInfo, and figure about double whatever it is now. Jens said this once somewhere, and I've found it to pretty accurate.