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Stuart Tomlinson wrote:
> After finding out that dispite what programs like SysInfo and others told
> me, that my HD inside my A600 was in-fact an IDE HD and not an SCSI (I
> always thought it strange that 600s can't take an SCSI but yet there is one
> in mine)

it can't.  not a chance.  it does, however, use the scsi.device. it's a
C= bodge, but it works.

> I moved it from my A600 to my CD32+SX1. It now works fine,
> but even after using ReOrg v3.11 on it it reads and writes like a slug.

> Although it only used to go at about 40k/s (Double the speed of a floppy)
> it now goes SLOWER, yes SLOWER than even a floppy!!

bloody hell. i used to get about 600k/s from my unexpanded 1200, and now
i get just over 1.2 M/s from the '030.  are you using some sort of
disk-expander?  or are you running lots of things at once?  cos, of
course, IDE drives rely quite heavily on the speed of the processor;
moreso than a SCSI would.

> Would re-formatting
> it help?

only if it's become very fragmented. i s'pose it's possible. i couldn't
live with transfer speeds that slow.

> Do I need a new, stronger, power-pack?

it may help. i'm not sure. what else are you running? try disconnecting
floppy drives and the like.

> I don't really want to
> do either of these options as cash is short to buy disks to back it up
> onto or to buy a power-pack but I will if I have to.

well, you only have to back up the stuff you really need :) 

phil
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