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[News] IDE UDMA for the Amiga??ANN.lu
Posted on 19-Jul-2000 15:17 GMT by Amifan4 comments
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I mailed Met@box for some info about the non-master/slave capable IDE interface on the Amijoe. This is what they replied: The IDE I/O is at max. PIO Mode 4 (16mb/sec) and maybe (bold and underlined :) )UDMA 33.
IDE UDMA for the Amiga?? : Comment 1 of 4ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Bowman on 20-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
Doesn't anyone thing its a waste of time aiming for standards that are already obsolete in the PC/MAC world. ATA66 is the standard with ATA100 being very close. I know that having ATA33 is way better than just plain old PIO but it's strange that people are willing to settle for so little.
IMHO the Amiga is going the same route as the Linux community and apeing the PC based Windows scene rather than going for the innovation that made the brand famous in the first place.
IDE UDMA for the Amiga?? : Comment 2 of 4ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Toner on 20-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Mark Bowman):
While I agree to some extent that including an older/slower IDE than the
current going PC standard is disappointing, I'd actually rather have decent
SCSI. I don't currently own any IDE devices outside those in my PC, so even
ATA66 or 100 wouldn't ofer me anything, as I can't afford to go out and replace
all my SCSI drives. (HDD, ZIP, CDROM) Perhaps if/when they do an A3000/4000
version (Paul at Blittersoft said they believe the 3/4K version will be done
eventually and is not cancelled like the recent rumors say) I'd rather have SCSI
or no drive connector at all, and make room for more PCI connectors or
something instead.
IDE UDMA for the Amiga?? : Comment 3 of 4ANN.lu
Posted by PaulT on 20-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Bill Toner):
Re: Bill's comment, "I can't afford to replace all my SCSI devices..." and IDE - While your financial choices are a personal matter, let's look at prices.
My first hard drive, 125 MB SCSI, $325. Had to buy an AdSCSI to run it on my A2000, another $150 or so? I can't even remember.
This week at Fry's Electronics, 30 GIGABYTES $137, Zip100 $40 after rebate, 52X CDROM $40. Assuming a case to put them in, that's a hair over $200 for something that a couple of years ago would have qualified as "all the storage in the WORLD". If I was willing to settle for _only_ 10 GB, I could have it all in for $170. And modern IDE if properly implemented doesn't eat up all the CPU you have like it used to, not that it truly matters for non-streaming-video users.
Bottom line, with SCSI prices still about 2x IDE not counting miscellaneous special cabling, if they can implement things with IDE then I'm all for it.
PaulT Answer here, it's more fun!
IDE UDMA for the Amiga?? : Comment 4 of 4ANN.lu
Posted by Frederik Yssing on 20-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
Any way, I would rather have SCSI, I use it nw, so why not continue t use it.
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