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3 more products added Catweasel etc
« on: August 04, 2004, 11:34:45 PM »
Quick note, 3 more products added.

Catweasel ISA is back in stock for $65.
The Catweasel MKIII is sold out, and the Catweasel MKIV isn't out yet. If you need a Catweasel for your PC and it has an ISA, this is for you.

Buddha - $65.00
New item!

Silver Surfer - $40
New item!

Enjoy:-)
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Re: 3 more products added Catweasel etc
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2004, 05:21:32 PM »
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Anyone have any experience with using the Buddha in an A3000?


I've used it in an Amiga 3000 before. It works quite well actually, and is shocking simple to setup:-) You can even boot off the Buddha.

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Is the performance as good if not better that the A3000's SCSI?


That would depend on the drive largely. The performance seemed to be on level with the built in SCSI, but I honestly never ran benchmarks. The nice thing is you can use absurbly large HD sizes cheap, where SCSI would be expensive.

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What IDE specification does the Buddha compare to in the PC world? Is it considered UDMA?


No way to UDMA, the Buddha does not DMA. I'd guess it probably is comparable to PIO-3 or PIO-4. Even the newest UDMA drives are backwards compatible though, so they will work.
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Re: 3 more products added Catweasel etc
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2004, 05:23:41 PM »
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ent0mbed wrote:
Does anyone know if there is even an expected date for the Catweasel MKIV release?  That will be the PCI version right?  Thanks!


There is no announced release date AFAIK, though it is my understanding I should have stock by mid October.

Yes this version will be PCI only. There will be Prometheus drivers though, so Classic Amiga users won't be left out:-)
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Re: 3 more products added Catweasel etc
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2004, 05:33:38 PM »
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That sounds cool. Are there any improvements over the past models?


Whoa boy, too much to quote here. I don't want to piss off the moderators:-D

CLICKY CLICKY

See? Too many improvements to list here:-)
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Re: 3 more products added Catweasel etc
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2004, 07:14:12 PM »
@tjaoz

I know, I know. You want people to buy Elbox's Fast ATA controller, no suprise here.

BTW the Fast ATA controller is dreadful. Who the hell can live with 100% CPU load(!!!) on a 68060 and still only get 8MB/s?
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Re: 3 more products added Catweasel etc
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2004, 07:20:07 PM »
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JJ wrote:
ive got a powerflyer gold in my miggy A1200, is that not DMA, and what sort of load does it put on my cpu, just curious, never looked into it


100% CPU load, get a cpu monitoring utility and be amazed:-)
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