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Efika is REALLY CAPABLE of two ide devices !
Cable should be max. 5cm with crossed pairs, must be with additional power. Disks should be configured with Master/Slave, not Cable select.
I tested it and it works on firmware level. Unfortunatelly, MorphOS has no support for second device.

Please, look to this article Efika5200b in 2021 - part5. It is in Czech language.
Here is two devices on Efika IDE, and list of partitions of both devices in OpenFirmware.

This was discussed also on Morph.zone

[ Edited by sailor 10.01.2025 - 12:35 ]

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O.k. and what would be the practical use case for this?
Not even enough to route a CF-adapter to the front of the case and these days there is really no reason to have 2 HDD/SSDs.

So, it could be done but it simply should not be done (unless someone is really really bored).

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Main practical use is to connect DVD drive. And ( for example ) plays there old Music CDs.
Or simply, utilized one more feature on low-power machine. Some sort of joy.


Here is other Czech article, with story telling about Efika, overclocking, more RAM, inconsistencies on CPU, board and OS.

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With a 5cm cable?

Sure maybe the SATA cable on an IDE-SATA adapter wouldn't count, but you'd still be flying pretty close to the sun with such a setup.

And again, topic is "expectations" not "wish list" and surely not "obscure feature request that has 0 chance of happening".

After MorphOS 3.19:

- USB3 support
- New TinyGL with new shaders and new graphic cards supported
- New hardware: Raspberry Pi5, Pi500 and Ryzen7+Radeon

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Yes, that's the problem: I discussed that with F. Mariak some time ago. Maybe he will do it, if he will have some time left (but it has the lowest priority!, so you can imagine whether this will happen.....)

Unix also allows both channels on Efika. In my case a IDE2CF with a ~8 cm cable works propper and stable (IDE2CF). Maybe buffered adapters (as used in A1200/600) will help for longer distances.
BTW: Dual-IDE2CF converters will not work, because of leak of 2nd channel on ide-port........tested that! Works with Firmware/Linux, but not with MorpOS.

@Kronos: USB: Yes, seems to be something wrong with Ambient! Works in most cases from shell and other file-browsers.....
But if you have a huge amount of files (lets say more then 10K) EFIKA goes nevertheless after a while in a deep sleep and awakes only by rebooting.

Very sad that EFIKA is treated so poor.

Ok, back to topic!

@Amigaharry2
please, what linux/unix do you use on your Efika?