Sell Blizzard 1230 and buy Blizzard 1260 for A1200

[JimDrew]

I have a Blizzard 030-IV w/SCSI. I have it connected to a SCSI<>CF adapter and I am seeing about 5MB per second. I get over 8MB per second with it using my WarpEngine 040's SCSI interface on my A3000.

[fitzsteve]

There are some SCSI-CF adapters available you could check out:

http://www.artmix.com/CF_AztecMonster.html

I don't know if this site is legit though!

[JimDrew]

You can buy these on eBay - that's the same one I have. I actually have two of them.

[schneidas]

Hey guys, sorry for hijacking this thread.
But how about this for the A1200 in use with a CF card:

http://eu-shop.elbox.com/en_US/p/Fas...K-IV-CFSATA/15

Would that be even faster than a SCSI kit?

[schneidas]

Did anyone test the FastATA kit with their Amiga?

[fitzsteve]

In my experience the FastATA pulled about the same speed as SCSI-2, but SCSI will have much less CPU overhead making it technically the better option if you have it available.

However the ease of use of IDE devices makes the FastATA a practical choice, SCSI can be daunting to those without the knowledge and SCSI-IDE adapters can be expensive with older SCSI drives being noisy and unreliable.

[schneidas]

Hi fitzsteve,

thanks very much for letting me know.
Ok then I'm going to try the SCSI route as well, instead of the FastATA.
I have, in fact, a SCSI kit that I'm not using right now with my Blizzard 1230.

May I ask you a few things?

1.)From here:
http://www.vesalia.de/d_acard.htm

would I need the 7720-U or would the 7720-UW version be better for my CF card (with WHD Load and Blizzard 1230-IV and SCSI Kit)?

2.)Is this a plug-n-play operation or do I need to make specific commands for this to work?

3.)Right now I'm using a Transcenden 133x 4GB card. Can I increase speed even more if I use a 233x CF along with the SCSI kit and the 7720U/UW?

4.)If I need to configure everything in WB 3.1 (kickstart 3.1) in order for all this to play nicely together - is that configuration saveable? Like you do it once and will never have to do it again (just boot WB and it works on its own) - or will I have to "initialise" it each time I restart WB?


Thank you very much in advance for your help

[fitzsteve]

These are both very expensive solutions for UW SCSI Devices as far as I can tell. You have SCSI-2 so you don't need these.

There is a thread over at Amibay that's interesting:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php...CSI-IDE-bridge

But you need a custom cable made up, try Amigakit to see if they can make it you need 25pin connector on the SCSI Kit to 50pin connector for the SCSI-IDE bridge, like the cable I had made up here:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php...l=1#post585352

Blizzard SCSI Rom is bootable, you don't need any special software to boot from it, note that if you have nothing on the IDE with KS3.1 you will get 10-15 second delay before it will start to boot.

As for plug and play, erm, well. If it's your lucky day then yes. If not then you might have to configure termination and ID's. There are jumpers on the SCSI-IDE bridge and it should come with a manual of some description so best to read it first.

Finally I don't think 266x CF card will make any difference but you can try it if you have money to burn

[schneidas]

Hahaha... it does indeed seem that way (I have a severe case of Amiga fever)

Thanks so much for all your help, fitzsteve. I will look into everything
THanks again

[fitzsteve]

You're welcome & good luck