TF1260 slow IDE speeds

[Amigaz]

Check your partition's MaxTransfer settings.

Set to 0x1FE00 from the default and 50 buffers on each one. Don't forget to press enter on each change or it won't take effect

See if that helps any.

Thanks. It was the first thing I tried

 

[miggymad]

I saw over on Exxos that you state that you have the latest firmware (68090) installed so that eliminates that ... what about a change of CF card adaptor?

I only use this one (labelled V.H2) and am consistently getting between 5 and 6mb transfer speeds on my Tf1260.

 

[Amigaz]

I saw over on Exxos that you state that you have the latest firmware (68090) installed so that eliminates that ... what about a change of CF card adaptor?

I only use this one (labelled V.H2) and am consistently getting between 5 and 6mb transfer speeds on my Tf1260.

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Yes, tried that
And other cf adaptors you plug directly onto the ide header on the TF1260

 

[miggymad]

Do you also have the buffered IDE interface plugged in between the CF card and TF1260?

 

[Amigaz]

Do you also have the buffered IDE interface plugged in between the CF card and TF1260?

No, that would be pointless and asking for trouble

 

[miggymad]

Just out of interest, what speeds are you seeing when the CF card is plugged directly onto the internal IDE header of the Amiga?

 

[Amigaz]

Just out of interest, what speeds are you seeing when the CF card is plugged directly onto the internal IDE header of the Amiga?

I haven't tried but I am pretty positive that I would get around 2Mb/s. Which is what you would expect with a 060 on the internal (PIO-0) IDE interface

 

[awmosoft]

I think I found the culprit in your setup. Early in my post I got 6 MB/ s with the TF1260.
I swapped my Rev 1 for a Rev 6. The Rev 6 is running at 50 MHz and I got the same result as you have 4 MB/s. In my test setup is Rev 6 slower than Rev 1 060 when using the IDE interface of TF1260.

My conclusion for my TF1260 I need to swap buy the 060 Rev 6 to Rev 1 to het 6 MB/s.

 

[CrazyC]

Well thats interesting. I have a Rev6 TF1260 that gets around 4 mb/s with no overclocking. I now have a second TF1260 with Rev 5 that gets the same. It would be good if people could confirm what speed they are getting with what Rev to confirm your theory.

 

[Amigaz]

Well thats interesting. I have a Rev6 TF1260 that gets around 4 mb/s with no overclocking. I now have a second TF1260 with Rev 5 that gets the same. It would be good if people could confirm what speed they are getting with what Rev to confirm your theory.

Have you overclocked it and checked what speed you get?

 

[CrazyC]

Over clocking the rev 6 to 94 or 100 takes it up to 5 plus mb/s. The rev 5 doesn't like overclocking so much.

 

[Bladejack]

I only improved the speed in mine when I mapped the rom to fast mem. I also have the eide in my rom.

Getting old, I think it was MuFASTROM, part of the mulibs package from Aminet

 

[awmosoft]

I have to correct my findings about Rev6 68060 and the latest 68090 firmware.

I changed my CF card to 4 GB SanDisk card with ClassicWB on it and it gives me 6 MB/S in Sysinfo 4.4. The Previous one was a noName Blue CF card which are provided with the TF 1260 got only 4 MB/S, but it only has AmigaOS 3.2.2. installed on it. Maybe it has to do with formatting with AmigaOS 3.2.2. I need to check it further.

 

[Amigaz]

I have to correct my findings about Rev6 68060 and the latest 68090 firmware.

I changed my CF card to 4 GB SanDisk card with ClassicWB on it and it gives me 6 MB/S in Sysinfo 4.4. The Previous one was a noName Blue CF card which are provided with the TF 1260 got only 4 MB/S, but it only has AmigaOS 3.2.2. installed on it. Maybe it has to do with formatting with AmigaOS 3.2.2. I need to check it further.

Interesting, keep us posted.

I have tried a pile of Sandisk CF cards with different file systems but not any 4GB variant. Only tried OS 3.2.x so far and PFS3 filesystem and newest FFS filesystem