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- From: msteen@sn.no (Morten Steen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is there any E-IDE controller for Amiga?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 11:57:30 GMT
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <1012.6677T828T2503@sn.no>
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- Deok-Min Yun wrote,
- >I know one can connect IDE hard drive to existing IDE cables on A4000 but
- >not sure if it supports mode 3 or 4 of ATA-2 formats. According to the
- >catalog for PC hard drives, ATA-2 HD's can theoretically go up to 16.6
- >MB/s but my current mode 1 (2?) Conner HD only goes up to 1.5 MB/s.
- >Thought about buying SCSI-II HD's but it can only go up to 10MB/s and it's
- >generally expensive than IDE HD's. Also, there's no SCSI-III interface for
- >Amiga anyway.
-
- I'm using a Conner EIDE HD in my A4000, and it works fine, and I'm also
- using an EIDE CD-ROM and I've never had any problems with that.
-
- I don't know anything about the different modes of the ATA-2, but since
- my Conner HD is very new, I don't think you should have any problems
- connecting diff. drives.
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