How to make money with a "dead" product?

Just release a new ROM and call it Mk-V.

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Would been cool if it could do DMA.

Cool! New hardware! Go Elbox, make PPC now!

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I agree. This doesn't seem to be any new product, but just a new rom update, adding one new PIO mode.

No S-ATA ports, no new hardware design, no DMA.

Nothing very interesting.

Elbox should rather work on releasing their Shark PPC, Dragon, etc...

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Well I have a FastATA4000 and I'm glad to see an update.

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The new controller offers much faster procedures for detection of connected EIDE/ATAPI devices, significantly fastening the computer's start.

I'm hoping that this will reduce the lag on the A4000 boot-up when there is no device connected to the motherboard IDE port.

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I know next to nothing about ATA, SATA, etc, so I'll ask here.
I have a SATA DVD-writer waiting in a local shop, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to use it. Do I need extra hardware on my A1? And what about drivers, what do I need?
What are the advantages of SATA over IDE, for example?

If I don't get a reply, I'll probably ask for a plain IDE drive instead...

The main thing you need to worry about between IDE/EIDE/PATA and the new SATA drives is the interface to connect the data cable and power lead. SATA drives use small cables with tiny L-shaped connectors instead of the usual chunky power connector and the wide ribbon cable interface. So, your A1 doesn't have SATA ports (and neither does my A4000 with the FastATA4000), but you can still use SATA drives if you buy an interface:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1699339&CatId=3770

That one allows you to connect a SATA drive to a USB port and I use something similar to connect a SATA drive to my A4000 via the Deneb USB card.

However, while there are other adapters to connect IDE drives to SATA ports, I cannot find anything to do the reverse (connect a SATA drive to an IDE port).

So, if I was you I woulf avoid the SATA drives for now and just use the older ones with some "round" cables:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=281800&CatId=729

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@Darrin

Ok! Will do so.
The guy from the shop told me that SATA brought no significant advantage, which is kind of weird. Change for change sake? Well, I really hate those old connectors, so even if that's the only difference, it's still improvement. ;)

Well, he's kind of right, depending on what your priorities are. Here's a brief background:

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Normal hard drives like we are all used to using are Parallel ATA (PATA). There is a new standard called Serial ATA which boosts transfer speeds up to 150MBs [and up to 300MB/s bursts with SATA2 technology) as opposed to a max of 133MBs with parallel interface. The SATA standard also improves airflow in the case because wide ribbons are no longer needed and a somewhat thin compact cable is used instead. Additionally, SATA2 offers a few features like Native Command Queuing, eSATA and other. However - using SATA means you will need a SATA controller, a SATA drive, and a SATA power cable/adapter (often not included on power supplies yet). The actual speed improvement of SATA vs PATA is not much noticeable with current drives unless you are talking about the high end SATA drives using RPMs higher than 7200 which can burst through a wider channel than PATA. If you are building an average/upper end system there is currently no pressing reason to go SATA unless you are building for the future. PATA standard is slowly dying out and high-end motherboards stop even including PATA support for hard drives, they still include one, though, for CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives that are still in their majority use PATA interface.

So, they can be a speed increase right at the top of the range if you have all the correct hardware to take advantage of it. The only real reason I like SATA is the small cables which makes the inside of your computer a lot neater and easier to access.

As I pointed out though, unless you have SATA ports on your computer then a SATA drive can be useless.

The new large hard drives being made are SATA so that's where we're all going to end up, however that PATA drive you buy today will still be usable on newer machines via the small SATA-PATA interfaces available.

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I've got one of the old boards (not very old).

Does anyone know how much the ROM upgrade will be?

I think Taj one of the MAUG http://go.to/maug members made Elbox aware of problems with large hard drives... and apart from fixing that they seem to have extended the speed and compatability some more too.

Nice one Elbox.

Wonder if they'll let us burn our own ROM upgrades?