On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Boris Gjenero boris.gjen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering how to proceed now. Is there interest in this, or is the
current way good enough? Should I continue to work on my modified ata.c?
Should I merge the DMA code with Rockbox with a minimum of
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Boris Gjenero boris.gjen...@gmail.comwrote:
I got Ultra DMA working on my 5th generation 30 gig iPod. Mode 2 (33.3
MB/s) seems stable, and it doesn't need CPU frequency boost. I've also used
mode 4 (66.7 MB/s), but that required boosting and I didn't test it
On 24/12/2008 2:46 AM, Mike . wrote:
This sounds like a pretty big improvement. Even if CPU time isn't
decreased, the higher transfer rate would still give a large improvement
in battery life due to faster spin down of the disk. Compared to
boosting, the disk uses a very large amount of power.
