will this work with aca500plus?
Yes, of course.
will this work with aca500plus?
Yes, of course.
One of the next things to test is a similar kind of IDE speeder on the ACA1240/1260. Since the ACA1233n-55 has rather limited logic, only two speeds were implemented (PIO mode 3 and 4), but the ACA1240/1260 can implement much finer granularity in terms of timing, so we can push/relax timing much better. Still, this may require a buffered adapter or high-quality CF card to work reliably. I've had great results with a buffered IDE adapter and a physical IDE drive (old IBM 16G drive), as that was MUCH faster than any CF card or DOM that I could find (>10MB/s).
On-board IDE is not planned. I don't want contraptions with a wobbly CF card adapter on such an expensive card.
Would be great if the ACA1260 would have faster IDE speeder than the ACA1233n-55.
I had also mixed results with the IDE speeder on the ACA1233n-55 with the A1200. With the SanDisk Ultra CF 16GB 30MB/s I have around 2.6MB/s and with the SanDisk Ultra CF 32GB 50MB/s. Which works the best with my AOS 3.1.4..1 BestClassicWB 1.5 and AOS 3.1.4.1 BestWB 1.3 with FFS. The SanDisk Ultra II CF 8GB 15MB/s is the fastest around 3.4MB/s but that speed I can only have with AOS 3.1 BetterWB 4.3.
The ACA1233n-55 with the ACA500Plus V2 I have around 6.9MB/s with a SanDisk Ultra CF 16GB 30MB/s card. With AOS 3.1.4.1 BestClassicWB 1.5 and BestWB 1.3.
How fast would be a CF card with the ACA1260 with the A1200. Have the IDE speeder also have speed difference with AOS 3.1 and AOS 3.1.4.1 such as the ACA1233n-55. The ACA1260 is nice to have on the ACA500Plus V2 but would like it more on the A1200 for the AGA 060 Demos.
I had also mixed results with the IDE speeder on the ACA1233n-55 with the A1200. With the SanDisk Ultra CF 16GB 30MB/s I have around 2.6MB/s and with the SanDisk Ultra CF 32GB 50MB/s.
While I think you plain forgot to activate the IDE speeder if you're only getting 2.6MB/s, it's plain impossible to reach 50MB/s.
I can't tell what speed you can get in the end with the ACA1240/1260, as it heavily depends on the CF card and the software. We may even add an IDE-fix-like package to the software in order to get the best-possible speeds. That said, the original IDE-fix package might be worth looking at for you, as that will also take serious advantage of the IDE speeder of your 55MHz card.
While I think you plain forgot to activate the IDE speeder if you're only getting 2.6MB/s, it's plain impossible to reach 50MB/s.
Jens, you read it wrong.
Use these SanDisk Ultra CF 32GB 50MB/s card with the A1200.
While I think you plain forgot to activate the IDE speeder if you're only getting 2.6MB/s, it's plain impossible to reach 50MB/s.
The IDE speeder on the ACA1233n-55 is activate with ACAtool 2.4. See now that there is a newer 2.5.1 version. Maybe that work.
One of the next things to test is a similar kind of IDE speeder on the ACA1240/1260. Since the ACA1233n-55 has rather limited logic, only two speeds were implemented (PIO mode 3 and 4), but the ACA1240/1260 can implement much finer granularity in terms of timing, so we can push/relax timing much better. Still, this may require a buffered adapter or high-quality CF card to work reliably. I've had great results with a buffered IDE adapter and a physical IDE drive (old IBM 16G drive), as that was MUCH faster than any CF card or DOM that I could find (>10MB/s).
On-board IDE is not planned. I don't want contraptions with a wobbly CF card adapter on such an expensive card.
Sounds good, as long as higher IDE speed can be obtained I'm happy. Higher IDE speed makes a very noticeable difference in usage. I wouldn't mind using a buffered adapter, even though I think my Transcend PATA SSD should give good performance without it.
Also curious to see other expansion options, RTG in conjunction with an indivision AGA MK3 enabling a single output on RGB and RTG would be awesome too. I will sit patiently (okay, somewhat excited) until the card comes out!