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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Darrin on August 18, 2010, 09:18:33 PM

Title: Mediator and open pci
Post by: Darrin on August 18, 2010, 09:18:33 PM

I have a Mediator installed in my A4000 tower conversion and it runs very well with the supplied Elbox drivers.

I also own a Catweasel PCI card and I noticed that 68K Amiga drivers are available for OpenPCI.  Checking the OpenPCI webpage I see that it is available to run with the Mediator.

My question is, can OpenPCI and the Mediator drivers co-exist or do you have to choose one over the other?

Any advice would be appreciated.  My goal would be to install a 5.25" floppy drive into my tower and use the Amiga to write D64 images back to real floppies.  After upgrading my PCs to Windows 7, I only have one very old PC that runs XP and thus can use the Catweasel.

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: Trev on August 18, 2010, 09:50:32 PM

I've used both at the same time: Elbox Voodoo driver, OpenPCI network driver, OpenPCI Catweasel driver.

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: Darrin on August 18, 2010, 09:59:35 PM

Thanks Trev.  Sounds great.

How is the Catweasel driver?  What have you used it for?

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: Trev on August 18, 2010, 10:05:25 PM

It's the same driver you'd use under WinUAE, and functionality is identical. I use it for HD Amiga and PC floppies. There's a keyboard driver, which I don't use, and a romtag device for booting from the Catweasel via Kickflash or a similar device. I don't think the joystick and SID ports are supported by anything.

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: Darrin on August 18, 2010, 10:10:13 PM

Sounds good.  It should do what I want it to then.

Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: smf on August 18, 2010, 10:47:18 PM

Quote from: Trev;575301

I've used both at the same time: Elbox Voodoo driver, OpenPCI network driver, OpenPCI Catweasel driver.

Is the openpci network driver better or why do you use that instead of the elbox one?

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: Trev on August 19, 2010, 04:40:37 AM

I had a good reason for using the OpenPCI driver at the time, but I don't remember what it was. Elbox's driver may not have worked with my card (a DLink something or other). If you don't have Elbox's MMCD (most everyone should), it's a free way to get support for 100 Mbps.

Title: Re: Mediator and open pci
Post by: rkauer on August 19, 2010, 06:04:16 AM

You meant a bit over 1Mbit, right?

Not that <800kbit/s from PCMCIA is good for anything.