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- From: mikew@net-link.net (Mike Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is there any E-IDE controller for Amiga?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 03:14:50 GMT
- Organization: DC Productions
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- In article <1012.6677T828T2503@sn.no> msteen@sn.no (Morten Steen) writes:
- > 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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- I don't know what if any cards do the higher speed modes, but it certainly
- is possible. A friend of mine got Mode 3 transfers of the internal IDE
- in the 4000. Only problem is: he was using NetBSD Unix not AmigaDOS.
- The way IDE and EIDE drives work it shouldn't be hard. Most of the logic
- is in the drive not the controller.
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