New internal Firewire to ATAPI adapter kit
Posted on 07/12/01 00:37 by Jan Willem                             
New internal Firewire to ATAPI adapter kit

CuongQ used our newssubmit to tell us that he found a firewire to ATA / ATAPI internal Converter, for those who would like to have a fast portable burner, but don't want to buy two, this might be a good option !

But there is more that makes this a cool thing, read this:


...When using the converted IDE device to FireWire device with our Internal FireWire Bridge Adapter, your computer will gain back up 85% of CPU's power. Computer now can run faster, smoother, and better. In addition, with our Internal FireWire Bridge Adapter computer system is no longer subject to four IDE devices and IRQ limitation. Now you can have up to 63 Internal or External IDE devices with only ONE IRQ.

Source: Datoptic

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By helmut, Fri 7 Dec 2001 11:23
here is the link: http://www.datoptic.com/fwint.html
By Guest, Fri 7 Dec 2001 11:27
The link to the source is actually already mentioned right next to 'Source:' in the top... Like in all newspostings, but it seems a lof of people don't know or miss that Smilie
By MoPhat, Fri 7 Dec 2001 17:35
It's because the BS Pub Stats are always in the way...
By Fish3669, Fri 7 Dec 2001 20:33
How are the RC5 Pub Stats in the way of the source link of the article? Even in 640x480 I cannot see the problem myself? Just wondering so we can fix the problem. Relating to the article, sounds like a great product, but just like SCSI, adds more overall cost to get better performance. I wonder which would be faster, SCSI or this FireWire2ATA/ATAPI...anyone got any stats on this comparison?
By Guest, Mon 10 Dec 2001 23:51
We've been following the 1394-to-ATAPI convertors for some time, and we have already purchased and tested them with 4 Plextor PX-W2410TA's. They work wonderfully. We were able to burn at 24x [with BurnProof disabled] to all drives with one task using the same image on one harddrive, and burn 4 different tasks, one task per burner, the source data for the task [in image format] existing on it's own harddrive [a total of four]. The wonderful thing that we were able to daisy-chain all of the drives together, linking the system with one 1394 cable, plugging into an Orange Micro NEC-based [NEC is recommended for absolutely no problems] Firewire card. The completion time for both of those runs was around 4 minutes, 20 seconds. Needless to say, it is almost the perfect solution. If only Plextor would design a way to update the drive firmware on a Firewire bus, we would be set.

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