| From: | Peter Hutchison |
| Date: | 16 May 2000 at 16:37:57 |
| Subject: | RE: scsi vs ide |
>hi, what is a AMIJOE processor?
Accelerator card with a PowerPC G3 processor (no 680x0 processor)
and 68k emulation.
>is there really that much difference in speed between scsi and ide in
>speed?
Yes, as SCSI can use DMA while IDE has to use the processor to transfer
data to/from memory.
>i had a a2000 scsi hd and scsi cdrom , and i dont think it was fast at
>all.
Mainly because it was early SCSI-1/2 which has been surpassed by todays
faster IDE drives.
>a lot of people told me to get scsi, yeah `cause its really fast..... hmmm
>i have since changed over to a 1200 power flyer ide 4 way adapter
>etc..., after alot of people including amiga stores said that a IDE cd
>burner will not work, what a lot of trash, in fact now it craps all over
>3 amiga setups from a amiga club with scsi that are supposed to be
>"quick" but i still want to go faster..... some one said get a AMIJOE
>processor ..
Are you still using FFS? Then I suggest getting SFS or PFS to improve
speed as wel. You will notice pretty well straight away the difference
it can make esp. combined with a PowerFlyer PIO3 interface.
Peter
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