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Does anyone have a Dan II Controller?
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126948065563

IrCOd like to have a benchmark comparison for it.

Regards
Andrew
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Andrew Roughan <no_email@invalid.invalid> writes:

Does anyone have a Dan II Controller? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126948065563

IrCOd like to have a benchmark comparison for it.

I haven't got one, nor had I heard of it. For others that are
interested (perhaps you already knew about these), there's an
applefritter post on it that links to the project's github page:

- https://www.applefritter.com/content/dan-sd-card-disk-controller
- https://github.com/profdc9/Apple2Card

I'd be interested to know the throughput of it as well.
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Jerry jerry+a2 at jpen.ca
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Hi Andrew, I have one. How should I proceed to benchmark it? With SPF? Or on
a IIgs with Benchmarked?


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cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew, I have one. How should I proceed to benchmark it?

On a IIgs with Benchmarked please. Use a 16MB image to cut out after the 4K test.
Please add your results to the spreadsheet.
Dan may also be doing this, so if you find his results there, think of a combination he hasnrCOt tried (e.g with or without accelerator or different speeds, or different micro sd media?)
Thanks!
Andrew
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Andrew Roughan <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew, I have one. How should I proceed to benchmark it?

On a IIgs with Benchmarked please. Use a 16MB image to cut out after the 4K test.
Please add your results to the spreadsheet.
Dan may also be doing this, so if you find his results there, think of a combination he hasnrCOt tried (e.g with or without accelerator or different speeds, or different micro sd media?)
Thanks!
Andrew

Actually, it is an 8MB image.
I have uploaded here in case it helps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eQlhr7m55ccqB4TkRCuorqhPHSoYTiXo/view?usp=sharing
It includes the Benchmarked software, so you can boot a regular 6.0.4 image
to start and then execute benchmarked from this image.

Regards
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,

Please add your results to the spreadsheet.

I can't follow which spreadsheet is meant here. Is that some private thing?
I'm asking because I wonder if it would make sense to add results for A2retroNET.

Regards,
Oliver



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Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> wrote:

I can't follow which spreadsheet is meant here. Is that some private thing?

Benchmarked has a spreadsheet to track results. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiZOz6GbGMJudGVoR0hiWDRXMlZfSnRtZUVjWXMwNWc#gid=0
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Hi Andrew,

I can't follow which spreadsheet is meant here. Is that some private thing?

Benchmarked has a spreadsheet to track results. [...]

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for pointing out :-)

Regards,
Oliver



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cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew, I have one.

I was really looking forward to your results so I could compare them to the other devices in the Juiced GS article I am working on. My deadline
approaches. Are you able to try this soon?

Thanks
Andrew


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Andrew Roughan wrote:

cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew, I have one.

I was really looking forward to your results so I could compare them to
the
other devices in the Juiced GS article I am working on. My deadline approaches. Are you able to try this soon?

Thanks
Andrew

Hi Andrew,

sorry I did not give you an ETA. My problem is, my GS and my DAN Card are at different storages. I will only have access to the card on march 14th. I
could give you results the day after. Would that still make the deadline?

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cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

Would that still make the deadline?

Unfortunately not. But I would still be interested to see the results when
you are able to provide them.

Thanks
Andrew
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cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

I will only have access to the card on march 14th.

I have some more time because the whole issue is now in review. My
contribution is laid out, but a minor update could still be possible.


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Andrew Roughan <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

a minor update could still be possible.

Results for the Dan ][ have been added to the spreadsheet. Thanks to
whomever was responsible for this. I have updated my submission to include them.
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Andrew Roughan wrote:

cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

I will only have access to the card on march 14th.

I have some more time because the whole issue is now in review. My contribution is laid out, but a minor update could still be possible.

That's great! Again, sorry for the delay. It took me some additional time
to set all up. I tried to update the Dan ][ Firmware from 3.3.2 to 3.4.1 on
my IIgs but no sync was possible. Not sure what it means. Anyway. I updated
the list.
The block tests were failing with the 8MB image you provided, so I had to
use the 32MB image from brutal deluxe.
Here the summary:
Read block 64K 29 KB/s
Read block-by-block 25 KB/s
File read ~24 KB/s
File write ~24 KB/s
It seems to be among the slower solutions. I think for a II+ or IIe it is
quite nice, given the availability of the components and the menu based
image selection.

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cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

Andrew Roughan wrote:

cybernesto <cybernesto@macgui.com> wrote:

It seems to be among the slower solutions. I think for a II+ or IIe it is quite nice, given the availability of the components and the menu based
image selection.

Thank you for the results. I have included them. For the IIgs, the MicroDrive/Turbo is a decent option in the same price point.
The UltimateDrive will blow everything away for speed, but the price has
not yet been revealed.

Regards
Andrew


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