| From: | magnus.sjoberg |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2000 at 15:46:13 |
| Subject: | RE: help with HD &PFlyer |
Sergio Tartaglia wrote:
> some time ago i've buy a powerflyer board, on rom for my
>A1200 and i've conneted to my old HD seagate at 1.2 gig.
>
>now i've found in a offer a new Hd Fujitsu MPE3064AT Ultra-DMA66,
>and i've connected it to my 1200 partitioned in no spplit mode
>and setted to PIO5 MODE (UDMA) and set the blocks to 1024 byetes
>(on the seagate they are 512) formatted and installed the
>pfs3 filesystem but the speed with the prgs and tests seem to be
>the same or slower then the seagate, why?? the PFlyer Gold board
>can handle 16.6 Mb of speed (from doc..) and the speed of the hd
>is moooore slower than this one..
The speed depends on your CPU. 16.6MB/s yes, but then you need
a fast CPU too. I've got a 030 @ 40MHz and I get about 5.5MB/s in
PIO3 mode.
Also, your old HD might slow down the new one if it's plugged to the
same IDE-port. If so, try moving your new HD to the secondary port.
Whatever you delete today, you desperately need tomorrow.