IDE Express - speeds?

[Damion]

You should be getting better than that. I would triple check the seating and cable connection of the express adapter (I had to re-seat mine a few times), and add some buffers to your partitions (maybe a few hundred), if you haven't already.

I installed the ide express adapter and it went up to 1.7MB/s. I had some problems initially installing idefix that came with it (system would just hang on starting) but thats been sorted now - and sysinfo is reporting a bit healthier 2.0MB/s..

Not to hijack, but was there anything special you had to do to stop idefix from hanging? I was never able to get it to work with CF cards.

[Damion]

It could be the CF card, because it should just "work". I'm getting about 5 MB/sec with an (overclocked) Apollo 1260, and some SanDisk cards. My understanding is that '030 cards should get at least that, if not a bit better.

[Damion]

NovaCoder wrote:

-D- wrote:
It could be the CF card, because it should just "work". I'm getting about 5 MB/sec with an (overclocked) Apollo 1260, and some SanDisk cards. My understanding is that '030 cards should get at least that, if not a bit better.

5mb is very good for a 1260, a 1230 should be quicker.

Yeah, the Apollo is quite a bit faster with the Express adapter than my old Blizz was, a few MB/s at least. Also, Piru's "speedyide" module from the BlizKick archive made roughly a 1 MB/s improvement.

Which file system are you using?

PFS3. It's a real fast combo with the CF cards, still surprises me every time 3.9 boots in mere seconds.