Actually, I didn't want to feed the troll, but Rats seem to find their "food" anyway.
tjaoz wrote:
It is you [...]
Welcome to the kindergarden. "No!!! It's you!" as usually.
So? Full random *read only* access is worth nothing.
This is what you want others to believe. You know why? Because random read access in E3B cards is so messed up that it is unusable.
Liar.
It is not true.
It is. Liar.
To make this speed possible, even in the quoted by you 4KB window range, at least 12 Amiga address lines should be connected to the Flash. This is not the fact!
It is. Liar.
Just watch the Algor board and see connection of address lines. Well, it is enough to read the description of the connector, to which Romulus is connected. This connector has only 5 Amiga address lines connected!
You have no idea. You're trying to tell Michael, who built the hardware and me, who wrote the software how the thing works? And you are talking about mental disorders? :laughing:
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Algor pro IS vapourware, according to your own vapourware definition. Until today Algor pro is not available.
For the first eFlash 4000, Elbox took multiple months to actually deliver it -- even after they claimed, it would be available. Is there any customer of the eFlash 4000 2MB yet? I wonder.
The shipment Algor PRO boards has been delayed due to Michael going into hospital, which was officially announced right after this was clear. Elbox never ever posts any delays, it just silently doesn't deliver.
The quality of hardware of the Flash part of the Algor/Romulus cards is beaten by the Eflash 4000 hardware MANY times.
Argument and proof?
1. eFlash 4000 is a fast and clean design, while Algor implementation of the Flash memory is a hard hardware hack.
Why? Proof? Zero points. Anyone looking at the eFlash with some knowledge of hardware design will immediately notice that it is not a clean design at all. No need to repeat the facts Michael has given.
2. eFlash is equipped with hardware protection against unwanted reprogramming, which is very important because Flash memories have limited reprogramming cycles amount.
FlashRoms cannot be written directly, but need a special programming cycle, which cannot be triggered by accident. Hence, user interaction is necessary. Zero points.
When you have no hardware write protection (Algor and Romulus case) of the Flash memory you are always exposed to destroying your Flash memory by a malicious virus before you find out that some software is rewriting it again and again.
Your point is void. Each flashrom has to be written using a special vendor specific way. A virus would have to know exactly how to write itself into the flashrom for each different card. Also, just overwriting a block of the flashrom would not trigger it automatically. In case of the Algor/Highway, a checksum also has to be calculated (I'm not aware the eFlash has this). This makes it very hard to execute alien code, written into the flashrom accidentially or by malicious modification. And who would write such a special virus? (From Elbox' track record, I'd say, that with their reverse-engineering and trojan coding experience, this should be no problem for them). Zero points.
I have read in the review in the mag, that the eFlash can only be flashed with the hardware protection jumper disabled, but it will not execute the contents of the flashrom then -- now this pretty user unfriendly, if you only want to make quick tests.
3. eFlash 4000 uses hi-quality Flash memories, which can be programmed 100,000 times, not only 10,000 times like memories in Algor/Romulus.
The eFlash uses recycled and obsolete MACH chips that would start failing far before the flashroms reach their theoretical guaranteed flash times. These are minimum guaranteed times. Just calculate how many years you have to do constant flashing, until the *guaranteed* amount of cycles is reached? Zero points again.
I do not have to comment that the Algor's edge connector is not gold-plated, which in itself eliminates that product in the very beginning.
Why? Because before the connectors start wearing off (in 10 years?), the rest of the machine has fallen apart?
As regards your "fast" USB controller", it's a bit exaggeration. Algor is an old-fashioned obsolete USB 1.1 standard controller.
Getting off-topic again, huh? It reaches the same and faster transfer rates than the Spider with USB1.1 devices. 'Nuff said.
As a summary: All of your so-called "arguments" do not hold. Do cannot tell anything against my arguments that the software provided with the eFlash is a piece of sh*t. You cannot give any good reason, why one should favour a Zorro III board to a Zorro II board. Your hypothetical fast flashdisk is, well, hypothetical (and would be of no practical use on 1MB/2MB boards).
Better luck next time :laughing:
