On Wednesday 04 April 2001 23:34, Cort Dougan wrote:
> The 8260 PowerPC seems to be amazing in terms of timing accuracy. Other
> PowerPC are excellent. The G4's get a worst case of 16us because of a
> problem with the IDE controller that's shipped with them.
Is that the case with *all* G4 Macs? Is it possible to disable the interface
(or just not fire it up) and use an IDE (UDMA/100?) card instead? (Under
Linux, that is.)
> If you take the
> IDE controller out of the loop, or move to another PowerPC platform, you
> can expect to see far better timing than the other platforms.
Any news in that area?
I'm thinking about G4 based *workstations* here, to use with Linux, XFree86
and KDE, preferably. Fast HD interface and lots of fast memory are important
features, as well as an AGP port for a serious video card, like the Matrox
G400. Need 350 MHz+ RAMDAC.
(I'm not going to buy one tomorrow, so I'd be interested in hints as to
what's coming up as well...)
//David
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