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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Reports from CeBit
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 12:59:57 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
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-
- PaV> DITTO... hanging off a parallel port, giving poor performance... the
- > PaV> sort of thing that brainless pclone users go for, because they figure
-
- I think this person is a bit confused. The Ditto drive IS a $150 tape drive,
- what kind of speed are you looking for ? On the other hand, the parallel
- port version of the ZIP drive is limited by the speed. BTW no one is
- expected to hook up their 9G hard drive there. It is there in the new
- machine, let's use it. OK ? :)
-
- Anders Karlsson (flex@kuai.se) writes:
- >
- > That EPP par-port has performance in the range of 500KB-2MB per second.
- > I don't consider that crap acctually..
-
- Yeap. As a matter of fact, it can also be diasy chained. Pretty need
-
- > PaV> maybe $20 per machine, and reduces functionality by 10 times. Well
- > PaV> done, I'm impressed.
-
- The IDE cost them $0.50. If it is either no HD or IDE, I would pick IDE
- any day. Now what you should complain is that they don't make internal
- connector for plugging in an internal SCSI board sort of like the real time
- clock. Not having a $3.00 real time clock is another story.
-
- > There is a new BIOS available for PC's that gives EIDE the possability
- > of 8 attached HD's, 4 Diskdrives and a stunning top performance on HD's
- > at 200MB/second. (I know, there isn't any drive that does that today.)
-
- The 4 floppies drive was supported at least in the old days. As a matter of
- fact, I think they dropped it to cut cost. Who needs 4 floppies when 1G
- drives are cheap. I don't think you can run 200MB/sec on the existing IDE
- interface as is just by swapping a BIOS rom. You can probably go double
- the speed by going 32-bit data path and may be doubling it again by redefining
- the timings.
-
- > The A4k/A1k2 HD-interface was a common IDE interface. Not EIDE. EIDE
- > has better performance and can have 4 devices instead of 2. FYI..
-
- If I am not mistaken, the 4 devices is provided by a secondary IDE port in
- a PC. Nothing special. Mind you though, they did reserved the address
- space on paper for an external IDE port. Nothing in silicon though. :(
-
- > Anders Karlsson Dedicated Amiga User.
- > flex@kuai.se PGP-key available on request.
-
- K. C. Lee
-