How fast is the ide port on a Xsurf for using a harddrive ???

[Effy]

I'm still messing around with my A4000D. The more I restart using it the more I get emotionally attached to it, something I do not have with PC's. Anyway, I seem to have some cool harddrives that I might wanna use in the A4000. Also have got a spare Xsurf with that non bootable ide port that can not be used for a CDRW. The question is how fast that port is compared to the standard ide port ?? Is that port only to connect a cdrom or is it also fast enough for a 3,5" harddrive of 6 Gb or more ??  :-? If I use ir for a cdrom then I don't need to use the IDEfix library to find the cdrom on the standard port ...

[Effy]

I'm gonna try it out later with the Xsurf. So far I have just managed to mount a 8 Gb hd on top of the internal floppy of my A4000 and on top of that a 48x12x50 CDRW. It's not really wide open space in there but that's old news. So far it boots up and I have made my bootable partition 650 Mb to start with. Once I put OS 3.1 and then later on 3.9 then I can use the rest of the space on the harddrive ...

[Effy]

Ryu : 650 Mb is easy to back up on cd, I do this regularly ...