What's the best buffered IDE controller for the A4000

[doctorq]

Hi, I was wondering which IDE controller would be the best to purchase for my A4000? Can anyone recommend one?

[amigau]

the best IDE controller on the Amiga has to be the Buddha from Individual Computers.  I have used these in A2000, A3000 and A4000 without incident, ever - they are great, compact and very easy to use, and come with software to help even speed up IDE access on the card.  And they are inexpensive, especially when compared with the scarcity and increasing price of any other zorro card out there (especially ethernet) these days.

here's the page for the card

http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/buddha_e.htm

you can likely find a used one in eBay, or get a new one from Software Hut, Compucare or Mr. Hardware, depending on where you live in the USA (assuming you live in the USA).

good luck!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[Knapster]

I have the standard 4 way buffered interface, but was wondering how good these are?

Want to ditch my scsi II drives and old ATA ones and replace them with one big drive.

[PaSha]

The FastATA4000 is the fastest IDE controller for the A3000/4000.
But it has no DMA, so your old scsi drives will be faster.

-Paul

Knapster wrote:
I have the standard 4 way buffered interface, but was wondering how good these are?

Want to ditch my scsi II drives and old ATA ones and replace them with one big drive.