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Re: Hard Decsion To Make For My Genuine A4000T
« on: July 10, 2010, 02:27:28 PM »
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I believe that the only problem is booting off non-FFS partitions. You could try backing up your boot partition, formatting to FFS and copying the files back to the partition. Make sure you have a copy of the PFS filesystem you use in SYS:L of your boot partition if you want to try. I don't think you would see much difference in performance if you decided to use the 4000T SCSI either. I believe it is theoretically faster as it supports FAST SCSI-II 10 MB/s instead of 5 MB/s max. It's possible that the 4000T SCSI would not be able to DMA into the accellerators much faster memory hurting performance. It shouldn't be too bad of performance though. I would probably buy a GVP accellerator myself if they would fix the boot ROM. I would definately buy one if they changed to 68 pin ULTRA SCSI. The cabling and hook ups are easier, the hard drives are cheaper and easier to find, and the speed is faster. I get a pretty constant 30 MB/s with my CSMK3 and a 15k hard drive I bought new for $10. This is blazing fast on an Amiga with PFS.
 

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Re: Hard Decsion To Make For My Genuine A4000T
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2010, 05:57:43 PM »
Quote from: Darrin;569808
I'd get an Elbox Fast ATA4000 and switch to IDE.



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I don't think there would be much advantage to an ATA4000. The 4000T already has a buffered IDE port that is faster than a 4000. What we want is to DMA into the accelerators fast ram. ULTRA SCSI or SATA on the accelerator with a ROM that properly supports RDB file systems would complete an optimal setup.