[iyonix-support] Re: USB mass storage drivers
- From: rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:27:51 +0100
rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
...
>> In the ensuing excitement I forgot all about the USB improvements, but
>> would now like to take advantage of them.
>> Did they come with the 5.16 ROM? or do they have to be obtained and
>> installed separately?
george wrote:
> They are separate: go to
> https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/other-zipfiles
> and download HardDisk4 (RISC OS 5 disc image, including boot sequence
> and applications. Instructions how to proceed and benchmarks are
> covered in TIB's feature by Jeffrey Lee ("New Iyonix USB mass storage
> drivers released" dated 1 Nov '09). The only thing I'd suggest is to
> keep your 'old' SCSFS driver (renamed 'oldSCSIFS' or suchlike) in case
> you hit problems and want to uninstall the new driver. With the new
> drivers I'm getting read-write speeds of around 2.5MB/sec down to 64Kb
> block-size with a 2GB Sandisk Extreme CompactFlash card, which is
> about 5x faster than before....
Thanks George
Installed as per instructions and working. On tests so far it is twice
as fast when copying mp3s from a pen drive to hard disk using FAT32fs.
John
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