| [News] Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 18-Jun-2003 00:39 GMT by Jens Schönfeld | 25 comments
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Kickflash OS4 by individual Computers has been revised. It has 1MB flash now, and can be expanded to 1GB if necessary.
Due to the high demand, Kickflash OS4, which has been announced on June 2nd, has been revised. The base version now has 1MB of flash memory, and can be expanded to 1GB on an expansion port. Transfer rates can be compared to normal harddrives, but the common access times of mechanical mass-storage media practically don't exist on flash memory: On random access, so-called solid-state memory is about tenthousand times faster than common harddrives.
Kickflash OS4 is a Zorro-card that's compatible with all Zorro-2 and Zorro-3 systems. The new base price for the board is 34,90 EUR. Prices for expansions are not yet available.
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| Comment 1 | reflect | | 18-Jun-2003 00:05 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Atheist2 | | 18-Jun-2003 00:09 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Atheist2 | | 18-Jun-2003 00:15 GMT |
| Comment 4 | hooligan/dcs | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 01:22 GMT |
| Comment 5 | CodeSmith | | 18-Jun-2003 05:18 GMT |
| Comment 6 | greenboy | Registered user | 18-Jun-2003 05:24 GMT |
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| Comment 12 | MarkTime | | 18-Jun-2003 11:18 GMT |
| Comment 13 | MarkTime | | 18-Jun-2003 11:19 GMT |
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| Kickflash OS4: Final product specifications : Comment 14 of 25 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 18-Jun-2003 11:25 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (CodeSmith):
CodeSmith said,
> You can buy an IDE compact-flash drive (I got one for about $20 for my
> soon-to-be-mine c-one), it should give you most (all?) of the advantages of
> the KickFlash on your AmigaOne.
Actually, this does raise an interesting point; "up to 1GB" sounds like CF, and Euro 40 or so sounds reasonable for something resembling a Zorro IDE interface in this day and age; adding an extra controller does make sense to preserve use of the onboard channels, and all you'd need is some equivalent of the old "Floppy Switch" to take the new controller out of the boot priority and fall back to the old ROMs. If arranged as such, you'd arguably also gain the advantage of 'flashing' the device through the filesystem (just copy over a new romfile, and even a new flash util, startup-sequence, etc) ... and the disadvantage of having it show up as dh0:, perhaps, but there are ways around that?
So is that how these cards are going to work, or are they 'custom' enough that conventional flashing utilities will be needed/the KS will be loaded without *any* boot-cycling (no matter how imperceptibly fast such could occur from a simple IDE CF)?
Just curious. |
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