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hardware Classic : FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0 |
| posted by DJS on 30-Oct-2012 13:25:28 (3732 reads) |
ELBOX COMPUTER is pleased to announce that the FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA controllers are now shipped with the new BootROM (ver.7.0). New BootROM was developed in order to ensure full compatibility with AmigaOS 4.1.
About FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA
With the FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA controller you can now take advantage of the latest low-cost, high-capacity and fast SATA/ATA/EIDE devices like hard drives, Solid State drives (SSD), Compact Flash cards, DVD drives, CD-RW drives, CD-ROM drives, ZIP drives, etc.
The FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA is designed to simultaneously use up to four devices: one Compact Flash card, one SATA drive and two to four PATA devices. The number of simultaneously used Compact Flash cards or SATA drives may be increased with additional adapters up to the total number of all connected devices of four.
Features:
• Fast transfer rate of up to 16.6MB/s
• Supports PIO-0, PIO-3, PIO-4 and PIO-5 modes
• Compatible with ATA 33/66/100/133 and SATA devices
• Adds two buffered and terminated ports for 4 devices
• LBA 48 support in the onboard BootROM (support of drives over 128GB)
• Automatically configured devices
• Compatibility with OS3.x and OS4.x
• Boots from any attached HDD, SSD, CompactFlash, ZIP or LS-120
Package contents:
• Fast ATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA Zorro III card with SATA and CompactFlash adapters
• Floppy disk with AllegroCDFS, FastATA software pack and User's Manual
• 46-cm 80-wire ATA-66/100/133 cable
For more info, see:
FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA page for customers from the European Union,
FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA page for customers from other countries. |
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0
Posted on 30-Oct-2012 14:11:42
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| Nice. I have a FastATA4000 mkV in my A4000 with a CF card, 2 x 80GB PATA hard drives and a DVD drive attached. I like the addition of the CF and SATA adapters.
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0
Posted on 30-Oct-2012 17:44:42
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| Hi Darrin,
Are you running AmigaOS4.1? With official 4.1 support I'm more inclined to check this out! |
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0
Posted on 30-Oct-2012 19:14:28
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| No, my A4000 is purely a 68040 in an Elbox tower with Mediator running ClassicWB. The only OS4.x machine I have is the X1000.
It is still a great card for classic use.
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0
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| What does it improve compared to a MK-V? I'm not interested in cheap adapters that can be bought at dealextreme for 4€. Any chance of downloading the contents of the eeprom so we can burn it and install it on older cards?
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0
Posted on 31-Oct-2012 13:22:22
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| @Crumb
The main difference between FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA and the previous models is a completely new firmware in the CPLD chips. In CF/SATA controllers a native support (up to PIO-5) for SATA drives and CompactFlash cards has been added. With older controllers CompactFlash cards and SATA drives with most of the PATA-SATA adapters were supported up to PIO3 only.
New BootROM (ver.7.0) cannot work with the previous FastATA 4000 versions as it calls procedures which are not included in the previous models.
Unfortunately new firmware with CF/SATA support does not fit into chips located in the previous FastATA models (including FastATA MK-V), so we cannot offer any kind of DIY upgrade pack. |
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Re: FastATA 4000 MK-VI CF/SATA: new BootROM ver. 7.0
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| Good on Elbox, I resume my A4000T project in the new year and will be sure to order one.
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