ST-IDE-ROM Dev Board v1 - BETA Testers

[JezC]

I just bought HDDRIVER, and the version is 10.15. You might be able to get an upgraded version, perhaps worth contacting the author.

Sadly I keep spending any 'spare' funds on other goodies (prom/GAL programmer etc.) so until I win the lottery or develop some restraint it's back on the wish list for a few weeks

[rubber_jonnie]

I just bought HDDRIVER, and the version is 10.15. You might be able to get an upgraded version, perhaps worth contacting the author.

Sadly I keep spending any 'spare' funds on other goodies (prom/GAL programmer etc.) so until I win the lottery or develop some restraint it's back on the wish list for a few weeks

I wasn't intending to blow half my monthly gadget budget on HDDRIVER, but all the testing made me weak and feeble, and I succumbed.

As for the programmer, that would be my bad then But I'm sure you'll be very happy with it

[JezC]

Can't wait to try it out...just a bad month (car insurance due, daughter's ballet & dance class fees to pay etc.) so sacrifices have to be made...and I'm not wanting to be volunteered as a human sacrifice.

[rubber_jonnie]

I'm not wanting to be volunteered as a human sacrifice.

Nobody ever is, but I do get the reasons behind it!

[exxos]

There is still 3 of the boards and PLD's available if anyone wants in on the action...

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0158

[rubber_jonnie]

There is still 3 of the boards and PLD's available if anyone wants in on the action...

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/store2/#0158

Stop making me want to spend more money!!

[JezC]

No point in me even getting excited about them...far too much month left at the end of the money..

Roll on the next payday and see what is still available.

[rubber_jonnie]

Managed to get a bit of further testing in this evening.

Here we have a run of the xferrate tester for a 4GB CF card:

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And here for a physical drive, a Fujitsu 6.4GB laptop device:

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Will test some more as and when I get a chance.

[exxos]

Though you can't get more than 1420 regardless of drive as thats the CPU bottleneck. I'd be surprised if any drives show up slower..

[rubber_jonnie]

Though you can't get more than 1420 regardless of drive as thats the CPU bottleneck. I'd be surprised if any drives show up slower..

Yeah, it's a pretty decent speed and fairly consistent with the list of speed tests that come in the xfrrate.txt file:

Hard disk Data transfer
Drive Interface driver rate (kb/sec)
----- --------- --------- -------------
1040ST with:
Seagate ST157N ACSI/ICD AdSCSI+ ICDBOOT (note1) 570
Seagate ST3610N ACSI/ICD AdSCSI+ HDDRIVER 7.55 1200
Seagate ST3610N ACSI/ICD AdSCSI+ ICDBOOT (note1) 1235
Seagate ST3610N ACSI/ICD Link HDDRIVER 7.55 1200
Seagate ST3610N ACSI/WB Link97 AHDI 5.0 1100
Seagate ST3610N ACSI/WB Link97 HDDRIVER 7.55 1200
IBM Ultrastar 2.16GB ACSI/WB Link97 HDDRIVER 7.55 1240

Obviously the above is old data, since HDDRIVER is now at V10.15.