Chromedome45
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I Have a chance to get one of these 8 bit IDE cards. As compared to the Acculogic Side1/16 or the Juko is this one any good? Have not heard much about it. Any opinions are welcome.
I've heard they can transfer up to 300Kb/s! That's quite a lot for an 8088 system, but I haven't been able to test it because I don't have one of therse cards.I Have a chance to get one of these 8 bit IDE cards. As compared to the Acculogic Side1/16 or the Juko is this one any good? Have not heard much about it. Any opinions are welcome.
Per, I could only get the one and paid a bit for it. Framer, it is currently installed im my
PC/XT 5160 and connected to a 170MB Hard drive and works fine.
Could be the BIOS on the 5160 or the controller BIOS (2.53) that is making it work.
The 528MB limit I'm not worried about right now.
I've heard they can transfer up to 300Kb/s! That's quite a lot for an 8088 system, but I haven't been able to test it because I don't have one of therse cards.
How many can you get?
If you can get more than one, I'll gladly buy one off you.
That's quite some transfer rate for an XT.If you overclock isa bus you can get mucho more than those 300kb/s ...
So, how do you overclock the ISA bus on an IBM PC/XT?
Great Googly Moogly!
Are you sure that's an IDE device on an XT class machine? That looks like RAM disk speed to me. I am surprised the 8088 can sling bits that quickly. It must be using DMA, RAM caching, or something is funky.
1MB per second is towards the upper limit of the ISA bus and pushing even the 16 bit version ISA bus.
Thanks!
Andrew Lynch
PS, those average track seek times are suspicious as well. I think we are seeing someone's disk RAM cache performance and not true device speed.
$150 is quite a lot for an adapter... I know it may be exactly what I want, but I'll not allow myself to pay more than $50 for it (It's not THAT imporiant for me).Wow!!! that explains it. Cool, I guess my HDD won't be able to match that
speed.
Oh and if anyone wants one looks like they have one left but
with a different part number. I am not trying to endorse this company
but they were very polite and shipped same day. And yes that is the
same amount I paid. I guess I was just a sucker and wanted one badly
enough to pay the price.
Here is link:
http://cfusion.com/cgi-bin/getPart_1.cgi?strSearchFragment=silicon valley
Part number: 7500354002 don't know if it's the exact same thing or not
but you may have to call and find out if your is interested in it.