USB to IDE converter on Amiga?

[wa9yoz]

Greetings all! Has anyone ever experimented with the "USB to IDE converter" on their Amiga?
Saw one for about $21 USD and just curious if it would be somehow compatible with the
Amiga that have the usb port installed.

[jj]

Im pretty sure that the last update for poseidon stack added support for these adapters, or was that usb ---> ethernet

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[CannonFodder]

I have seen USB2 adapters that let you connect a SATA2 drive.  It would be very nice if Poseidon supported these. :-D

[Thomas]

Massstorage is one of the basic features of Poseidon. It certainly is supported, it always was.

Bye,
Thomas

[CannonFodder]

Thomas wrote:

Massstorage is one of the basic features of Poseidon. It certainly is supported, it always was.

Bye,
Thomas

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

[Matt_H]

CannonFodder wrote:

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

Probably, if they're massstorage compliant.

Not much point to them being SATA, though, since the bottleneck will still be either USB1.1 speeds or Zorro/Clockport bandwidth. Results could be better on a USB2 board under Amithlon or MorphOS.

[CannonFodder]

Matt_H wrote:

CannonFodder wrote:

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

Probably, if they're massstorage compliant.

Not much point to them being SATA, though, since the bottleneck will still be either USB1.1 speeds or Zorro/Clockport bandwidth. Results could be better on a USB2 board under Amithlon or MorphOS.

Or USB2 on a Mediator/Grex etc.

[Thomas]

Including these SATA2 adaptors?

For USB there is no such thing like SATA. It does not matter if you use a 64MB thumb drive or a 2TG SCSI RAID array, as long as it's connected through USB, the computer only sees one massstorage device of a certain capacity.

Only if the USB device is vendor-specific (which means that you have to install vendor-specific drivers, even on mainstream operating systems), then it wouldn't work on the Amiga.

Bye,
Thomas