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- CENTurbo II Rev A - Last minute !
- August 98
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- The CENTurbo II was modified to ensure the compatibility with the last
- ATA-4 norme wich manage the IDE HDD transferts.
- The hardware IDE timings was new-designed onto the CT2 and replace the
- old ones of the original Falcon (done by COMBEL).
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- This last minute modification was became necessary because some IDE HDD
- was not correctly or NOT running with the CT2.
- This problem was already existing with the CT1 about some rare IDE HDD.
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- Now, the last models of IDE HDD (PIO 4) exploit fully their
- capacities and the transfert rates are fanstastic !
- Sure, V-TRAX, the new AUDIO DtD software exploits this potential...
-
- Here are some tests we have done with the last QUANTUM FIREBALL IDE,
- the ECLIPSE model (very noiseless).
- The ECLIPSE is existing with 2.5, 5.1, 7.6 and 8.5 GB (available at CENTEK).
- The driver used on Falcon is CECILE.
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- Machine Rate (reading)
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- F30 16 MHz 2.5 MB/s
- F30 25 MHz (CT1) 3.8 MB/s
- F30 50 MHz (CT2) 8.5 MB/s !!
- HADES ??
- MILAN ??
- PC...... ......
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- QUANTUM announced on it site a maximum of 6.5 MB/s about the FIREBALL, but
- you may ask on wich machine and particularly with wich OS were the tests
- realized ?!
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- Some others tested HDD on CT2:
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- SEAGATE MEDALIST 1.2 GB 4.8 MB/s
- SEAGATE MEDALIST 2.1 GB 5.9 MB/s
- QTM FIREBALL STRATUS 3.2 GB 7.5 MB/s
- QTM FIREBALL SE 6.5 GB 7.5 MB/s
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