Re: New IIgs Accelerator.... Wow!

[Calibrator <calibrator@freenet.de>]

On May 14, 10:33 am, Drew <goggled...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 May, 08:50, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> >
> > That architecture would discourage me from buying it (if I was still in
> > the market for a IIgs accelerator).
> >
> > Being in the CPU slot and NOT in a slot renders it incompatible with DMA
> > (e.g. to/from SCSI cards).
>
> Would it really be an issue at that kind of speed? I use a CFFA card
> and that flys along and isn't DMA compatible at all.

My MicroDrive Turbo IDE card is approx. twice as fast compared
to the CFFA in my system (all cards latest revisions, stock IIgs).
I don't really know if it's the DMA that makes the Turbo faster
but I wouldn't want to step down to the CFFA for my system
partition (I use it for archive partitions and data exchange).

bye
Marcus