How fast is the ide port on a Xsurf for using a harddrive ???

[Effy]

I'm still messing around with my A4000D. The more I restart using it the more I get emotionally attached to it, something I do not have with PC's. Anyway, I seem to have some cool harddrives that I might wanna use in the A4000. Also have got a spare Xsurf with that non bootable ide port that can not be used for a CDRW. The question is how fast that port is compared to the standard ide port ?? Is that port only to connect a cdrom or is it also fast enough for a 3,5" harddrive of 6 Gb or more ??  :-? If I use ir for a cdrom then I don't need to use the IDEfix library to find the cdrom on the standard port ...

[crystall]

I tried it a while back and it was dog slow but consider that my X-Surf was stuck in a Z2 bus board so I think that's to blame too for its very low performance.

[Effy]

I'm gonna try it out later with the Xsurf. So far I have just managed to mount a 8 Gb hd on top of the internal floppy of my A4000 and on top of that a 48x12x50 CDRW. It's not really wide open space in there but that's old news. So far it boots up and I have made my bootable partition 650 Mb to start with. Once I put OS 3.1 and then later on 3.9 then I can use the rest of the space on the harddrive ...

[Ryu]

650mb for workbench? are you mad? ;-)

[MrZammler]

I was wondering the same thing myself. But, since I'd require to remove my 3k's internal floppy, I was wondering if anyone knows if an A3000 will boot without one ?

[Effy]

Ryu : 650 Mb is easy to back up on cd, I do this regularly ...

[Framiga]

Hi crystall

i've tryed it, only for testings pourpose and it has quite a half TRate, compared to the internal A4000 IDE port :-( (1.2MBsec on a 040@30mhz)

We must consider that it is a software  emulated IDE port.

A good bonus, like emergency host port . . . for free :-)

Ciao

[crystall]

We must consider that it is a software  emulated IDE port.

I didn't knew that, sounds cool

A good bonus, like emergency host port . . . for free :-)

I used it for that purpose since I have SCSI drives/cdrw, it is easier to access than the internal IDE controller. The A1200 internal connector still needs that horrible adapter cable and it is deeply burried under my Z2 daughterboard

[redrumloa]

MrZammler wrote:
I was wondering the same thing myself. But, since I'd require to remove my 3k's internal floppy, I was wondering if anyone knows if an A3000 will boot without one ?

Yes.