Apollo 060 or Blizzard 1260?

[Damion]

mauidj wrote:
Well I got the board but I can't get it to work.
Nubee question........Does it need drivers?
Also my board has a barrel battery which won't allow me to close the trap door.
I have not seen this before.
See the picture here....link
mahalo for the help guys  :-)
Aloha!

Drivers are needed, you can get the install disk here:

http://www.l8r.net/install/accel.html

Also, I can mail you a floppy if necessary, just shoot me a PM.

About the battery... :/ Yeah, some of them had a lower-profile coin type, it could be replaced or removed if you really want the cover on. I usually leave mine a bit raised in the back with the cover off anyway (extra airflow, it gets hot here in the summer).

[mauidj]

-D-
PM sent.
many mahalos  :-)

[djbase]

-D- wrote:
The Apollo has faster chipset access, sorry but it's a measurable fact.

I don't have my Blizzard anymore to test, but the same IDE-Fix Express unit yielded a little over 2 MB/s. The only variable is the "speedychip" option, I can't recall whether or not I had that enabled with my Blizzard card, so it's definitely possible it could be faster.

Well, faster chipset access was not in question. I did a test from a plain OS3.1 install disk. Might be faster with other hacks. But all 060 are slower than 030 boards. Even my Blizzard 1220/4 beats the B1260.

[Damion]

Agreed, even my POS Apollo 1230 card has faster access than the 1260 card at 50 MHz, according to bustest. Overclocked it gets close, if not a bit faster in some tests (though only at > 80 MHz).

Anyway - if I mis-quoted the IDE speed it was unintentional. I sold the card years ago and may have remembered incorrectly.