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Elbox FastATA 1200 Ans V1200 V2.

Christophe SUAREZ

Posts 4
27 Sep 2020 00:09


Hi,
 
  As V1200 works without KS ROMs, FastATA 1200 didn't work anymore.
  May the FastATA 1200 can be used with Vampire as it was with my Blizzard 1230 in near future ?
 
 


James Husted
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Posts 81/ 3
27 Sep 2020 02:42


I dont think its needed as the vampires onboard IDE is way faster than any of the old solutions.


Christophe SUAREZ

Posts 4
27 Sep 2020 07:15


I have my new CF card on vampire and I have to connect a 2,5" hdd and a 3.5" hdd plus a DVD-RW drive and don't want to buy another stuff as I have the FastATA. This is why I asked about it.


Alex K.

Posts 23
27 Sep 2020 09:37


Try to connect two drives to the vampir IDE and the Amiga IDE.


James Husted
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Posts 81/ 3
27 Sep 2020 10:35


I take it your amiga is Towered?


Christophe SUAREZ

Posts 4
27 Sep 2020 18:49


Yes it is.


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
28 Sep 2020 21:15


FastATA will only work in PIO0 mode with Vampire 1200.

Documented here :
https://wiki.apollo-accelerators.com/doku.php/vampire:accelerator_compatible_amiga_add-ons


Renaud Schweingruber
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 378
28 Sep 2020 21:17


Christophe SUAREZ wrote:

As V1200 works without KS ROMs, FastATA 1200 didn't work anymore.

FastATA 1200 does work with Vampire 1200, even without kickstart in sockets. It just will work in PIO0 mode only, which makes it useless.

I ordered one to test it.


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
29 Sep 2020 08:39


Christophe SUAREZ wrote:

Hi,
 
As V1200 works without KS ROMs, FastATA 1200 didn't work anymore.
May the FastATA 1200 can be used with Vampire as it was with my Blizzard 1230 in near future ?

FastATA can work together with Vamp.
AFAIK in PIO0 mode FastATA works today.
The other mode might work in an upcoming Vampire release.

But please mind that the IDE controller in the Vampire
is a lot faster than FastATA.
So if you have the option to plug an IDE device either on the VampIDE or the FastATA - then please mind that putting it on the FastATA will slow down your system a lot!




Christophe SUAREZ

Posts 4
02 Oct 2020 05:44


Thanks for yours anwers. I have a CF card (wb 3.1.4.1) to connect to the vampire IDE and I want to use FastATA to connect DVD-RW and my old 80 MB 2,5" HDD (wb 3.1) purchase with my A1200 Rev 1B and another 2 GB 3,5" HDD with wb 3.9.


Jamie Chapman

Posts 69
03 Oct 2020 00:31


Christophe SUAREZ wrote:

Thanks for yours anwers. I have a CF card (wb 3.1.4.1) to connect to the vampire IDE and I want to use FastATA to connect DVD-RW and my old 80 MB 2,5" HDD (wb 3.1) purchase with my A1200 Rev 1B and another 2 GB 3,5" HDD with wb 3.9.

Yeah makes sense to me to use the fast vamp ide for the boot drive,  and put the slow dvd etc on the fast ata,  there by getting the fastest you can for cf card without slowing it down, and the fastest you can for the dvd :)

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