Re: New IIgs Accelerator.... Wow!

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On May 14, 9:11 am, Calibrator <calibra...@freenet.de> wrote:
> 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).

(Apologies is this got double posted... I blame Gurgle Groups)
Be sure you're using the GSOS driver for the CFFA - it's significantly
faster, but requires that you *not* be at the latest revision of
firmware - 1.2 vs. 2.0.  CFFA is easy to flash, though, so it
shouldn't matter.  See Dave Lyons' driver on Rich's download page:
http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/downloads.php