Zorro III USB - Deneb

[Matt_H]

Amiga-News.de is reporting a first look at E3B's new Z3 USB card.

The bulk of the main report is only in German, but there are some pictures as well.

Most likely getting one of these!

[Flashlab]

Wow looks nice! I have one Z3 slot left...

[keropi]

I wish they where coupled with lan too! like an onboard norway...

[Akiko]

Been looking forward geting hands on one  :-)

Any release date set?

[Tahoe]

@keropi
What about a USB Ethernet dongle? We're talking USB speeds of 12MB/sec on this baby!!

[keropi]

@tahoe:

I don't know, the dongles already tested on subway/algorPRO are SLOW! 4-5kb/s , I could not make them go faster...

[Tahoe]

This card is more then 10, if not 20 times faster. (specially compared to the subway)

[djbase]

I wish they where coupled with lan too! like an onboard norway...

A 100 Mbit Addon may follow.

[mboehmer_e3b]

Any release date set?

Not yet, we hope to make it to Xmas this year (announcement of the year seems to be necessary on Amiga market ;-) )

I'm quite busy with real life at the moment, and I must order things after their urgency. At least my desktop is in operation again, so I can try to get the last few developments done for this card.

Michael

[mboehmer_e3b]

What about a USB Ethernet dongle? We're talking USB speeds of 12MB/sec on this baby!!

Ethernet on USB2 is definitely the way to go here.

About the 12MB/s measurement: it was on a A3640 card, which has no onboard RAM. So the 12MB/s are Zorro III to motherboard RAM, and the speed is higher as on CPU card addon RAM, as there are fewer levels of logic in the data path (bus drivers, MACHs, ...). On the other hand, the A3640 is dead slow when accessing motherboard RAM, so things equalize here again.

You can expect DMA performances of the about 8MB/s to 10MB/s in real life, depending on the hardware setup you have, and about 4MB/s to 6MB/s when running in PIO mode (as explained on a1k.org this is a matter of Buster features, indeed).
But don't fix me on these numbers, development is still ongoing, and timings may or may not change - better have a stable system with slightly less performance than a faster system with hangups and data losses.
Speed is not everything.

Michael

[keropi]

Great job as always mboehmer_e3b !
I can't wait to get my hands on the new cards  :lol:

[Zac67]

*me_want* :-o

[alexh]

Looking forward to a product. I hope this product is not the end of all your hard Zorro III work michael.

[Bazzaq]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Dragster]

Great news Michael! I'll very likely get one of these :-)

However, I remember Chris Hodges stating on the Highway mailing list that Poseidon 3.8 might be the last 68K version, so what can we expect regarding poseidon (68K version) development, updates, new drivers/classes and support when this card gets released?

Thanks!

Dragster, a happy AlgorUSB user!