although i have my reservations about some elbox tactics and marketing practices, i have to applaud them for even releasing a fully functional PCI bus for a range of amigas.
and within the confines of the A1200 CPU connector. most A1200 accelerators can't understand external DMA, which is why the A1200 mediator has to do paging in the zorro2 address space. hence due to this, a shark will never ever happen.
i think the dragon hasn't been released due to compatability/speed problems.
not only that, but other products like the FastATA, and keeping these products and drivers uptodate! whats the fastATA upto these days, rev5?
although i am dubious of knobbleware built into elbox drivers, i cannot fault them for sticking it out in an ever shrinking market.
so i'd say thank you to
E3B/Chris Hodges
Indiviual Computers/Jens Schoenfeld
Elbox
and amigakit for making it all available. :-)
so to not buy from elbox due to some wishfull thinking, i see as akin to shooting yourself in the foot, by alienating one of the few companies supporting us right now. :-(
now, how about a DMA capable IDE Zorro2/3 card? :-D
