>> That EPP par-port has performance in the range of 500KB-2MB per second. I
>> don't consider that crap acctually..
KCL> Yeap. As a matter of fact, it can also be diasy chained. Pretty need
Explain plz..
>> 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.)
KCL> The 4 floppies drive was supported at least in the old days. As a
KCL> matter of fact, I think they dropped it to cut cost. Who needs 4
KCL> floppies when 1G drives are cheap. I don't think you can run 200MB/sec
KCL> on the existing IDE interface as is just by swapping a BIOS rom. You
KCL> can probably go double the speed by going 32-bit data path and may be
KCL> doubling it again by redefining the timings.
Dave Haynie has already explained this. (Thx Dave :) I was totally way out of line with this.. I'm sorry.. (I'll just go bash that PC-owner that told be that BullShit..)
KCL> If I am not mistaken, the 4 devices is provided by a secondary IDE
KCL> port in a PC. Nothing special. Mind you though, they did reserved the
KCL> address space on paper for an external IDE port. Nothing in silicon