FastATA 1200 MK-IV Available For Pre-Ordering

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Still no love for the big box Amigas

Some of us have money in hand if upgrades became available.  Hint, hint...

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Yeah, I'm not too concerned with RAM at the moment, my main needs are CPU, drive controllers and flicker fixer, although once those are taken care of the Zoram is on the wishlist as well.  I'm the guy that's about to buy a new GVP 060 despite the gotchas just because it's available as a new refurb...

@Darrin: I've had hit and miss luck with direct to the manufacturer, but if ElBox is responsive I'll have to check it out.  I want a Mediator CD anyway.

Sorry to sidetrack the thread...

How has this controller worked out for others?  How about the 4000 version?

On paper it sounds good and although I'd like DMA, at least it wouldn't hang up my Deneb like my 4000T SCSI does.

Edit: I will wait a bit to see if the card shows up on AmigaKit.

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Your A4000T scsi should never hang your machine with Deneb in PIO mode. You'd better get an scsi-ide adapter. Perhaps your cabling is bad, your sync/async mode is bad, the scsi chain is badly configured or your A4000T psu connector is broken but in a perfectly sane A4000T you won't have that problem

I know I have to run it in PIO, but I'm not happy about it.

If I had the option, I'd disable the 4000T SCSI and let the Deneb do DMA instead.  At least I can buy new fast USB devices locally, SCSI adapters and drives are rare these days.

The lack of DMA in the FastATA 4000 is almost a feature in certain configurations.