CF-IDE Max Transfer - What am I doing wrong?

[thgill]

Frickin' Hell that looks good.


I have also been pondering moving over to either SFS or PFS (once it becomes free/open source).

I am probably going to use a 16GB CF card. I got stacks of unused 20, 40 and 60 gig ide laptop drives, however I just love the silent CF card approach.


My 4 gig Kingston card is just about full and busting at the seams.


MOAR STORAGE!

 

[fitzsteve]

Thanks for your comments thgill, the 40gb Laptop drive I have is pretty much silent plus I play lots of IGame which writes to disk every time you load a game thus why I rather use HDD's or MicroDrives.

Although I do use a 4gb CF setup in my A1200D so we'll see how I get on with that

An 8 or 16gb CF would be nice though as 4gb now for me isn't quite enough. (200mb SYS, 300mb Demos, 3.09gb WHDLOad Games, 2gb Games/Music/Emulators.) So for now I only have about half the WHDLoad games on my 4gb Tower Setup.

Its ok for my A1200D becuase I don't have all the extras, just the WHDLoad games =)

Steve.

 

[arnljot]

So the question is, does it reboot lotsa times during start-up?

Or in plainer words, does Devs: contain kicstart rom patches?

In such a case, have a look at your scsi.device version, it could already be patched to support larger drives.

Ii it's not, then you'll have to consider to get a hold of _____ <- brain freeze, don't remember it's name or apply the rom updates yourself from your os.39 source. Say AmigaForever or something like that.

 

[fitzsteve]

So the question is, does it reboot lotsa times during start-up?

Or in plainer words, does Devs: contain kicstart rom patches?

In such a case, have a look at your scsi.device version, it could already be patched to support larger drives.

Ii it's not, then you'll have to consider to get a hold of _____ <- brain freeze, don't remember it's name or apply the rom updates yourself from your os.39 source. Say AmigaForever or something like that.

This setup does not reboot, it boots straight into Workbench, I know what you mean becuase the CWB OS3.9 I use on the A4000 does reboot and patches a custom 3.9rom.

There is a little guide on the Classic Workbench site how to patch the SCSI.DEVICE, it sounds like this is what I have to do

 

[arnljot]

idefix was what I was trying to remember

Now, it sound like that guide is the right idea.

 

[fitzsteve]

idefix was what I was trying to remember

Now, it sound like that guide is the right idea.

Ahh, I am using IDEFix97 with a 4 way buffered IDE so does this patch the SCSI Device for me?

 

[arnljot]

The rom updates found in 3.5 and 3.9 does the same thing as idefix as far as I know, only they are "official" updates from Amiga Inc vs being 3rd party.

If you read the stock startup sequence, you'll notice that they check for the existence of idefix, and if it's there, it won't bother.

Now, the rom updates use "new style patch" on scsi.device while idefix has scsi direct and td64 I think.

Using SFS it's not so important as it goes both ways. It's bi-patch as it were.

Also, if you're using idefix I reccomend you to check out Doobreys updated idefix (unofficial here)

It'll make life simpler hopefully

 

[cosmicfrog]

thats a good call on doobrys patches as it

Allows CF cards to work with IDEFix/Buddha/Catweasel/XSurf IDE drivers

and as I know steve has my old buddha card

edit also
steve you probably corrupted your big files on the CF card when you coppied them to it that is before you changed the maxtransfer setting

 

[fitzsteve]

@arnljot - thanks for all the advice.

I'll let you know how I get on

If anything goes wrong it wont be a problem since I'll make a full backup in UAE before I do anything else

 

[rkauer]

An heavily patched Workbench 3.1 will not differ too much to OS3.9, speed-wise.

But it will lack a few features of 3.9 (like rendering icons in FAST-RAM) and programs made exclusively to run 3.5/3.9 will not run on 3.1.

If you have a RTG machine, go for 3.9: you'll not regret it.

 

[fitzsteve]

An heavily patched Workbench 3.1 will not differ too much to OS3.9, speed-wise.

But it will lack a few features of 3.9 (like rendering icons in FAST-RAM) and programs made exclusively to run 3.5/3.9 will not run on 3.1.

If you have a RTG machine, go for 3.9: you'll not regret it.

Hi rkauer,

I'll be running OS3.9 on my A4000 with the PicassoIV so I will get my OS3.9 fix, don't worry

I love the P96 pack though Voodoo though on the Tower just for its shear speed, we're talking UAE speeds on a real A1200T even with an 030