1 Apr
2001
1 Apr
'01
8:28 p.m.
hi,
are
>It's true. In general, IDE tends to be a
fairly raw interface,
although as
machines have
evolved, it's not as raw as back in the 386 days.
It's worth pointing out that the A4000 was buffered, though. There buffered IDE multiplexers abvailable so that one might
add four
ATAPI devices
at once. I've got an unbuffered one on the 4000,
though I've since
removed the
three sub-gigabyte drives with a single bigger one.
Someone said that some people have fried unbuffered amigas by trying to fit
CDROM drives to them - the current draw is bigger and cooks the CPU. That
may well be myth though - surely the IDE spec says things about current
limitations as well as protocol? (although I don't doubt that there are one
or two bad drives out there)
Oh, I fell foul to ebay - that A3000's almost tripled in value over the
weekend. Think I'll give it a miss in future (first time I've tried ebay)...
rather wait for something to turn up where I know what the asking price is!
(fair dues on the A3000 though, it did seem like a bargain at the original
price given how loaded up it seemed to be - I got fed up dealing with
inherent web time delays though and got bored bidding on Friday)
I think I'll keep scouring local ads and loot for a 1200 or something...
There is a free NFS server port on Aminet,
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/aminet/comm/tcp/nfsd_bin991130.lha
I'd probably go with that in a UNIX environment, though it seems
to have a
tendency to fluctuate in speed a lot. I suspect this
has got
something to do
with the virtual inode which it goes about creating,
but suddenly
performance
drops a whole lot and drive activity gets quite
intense.
well as long as something works :-)
Back when I used to use the A500 a lot I used to have to boot a PC XT
emulator and copy files via floppy that way - it was really quite painful!
(Can't remember the name of the emulator now)
BTW, I got my first Speccy today! Can't wait to
see if it's a 48K
or 16K
version. Now I only have to get one of those cassette
recorders.
=)
now you're talking! The best computer ever... :-) Hopefully it's a 48K, I
don't think much will run on the 16K version, they never were that popular.
Ahh, the days of interfaces falling out of the back of the machine,
constantly tweaking tape head alignment to get anything to load, broken
keyboard membranes etc. etc. ;)
cheers for the help,
Jules