PCI IDE controller on Mediator?

[motorollin]

1. Is it possible?
2. Would it offer a speed improvement over the built in IDE controller of the A1200?
3. Could you boot from it?

Cheers

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moto

[motorollin]

mboehmer_e3b wrote:
Hi,

ad 1): plugging in, yes. No drivers available though.

Shame :-(

mboehmer_e3b wrote:
ad 3) no. PCI is not active at boot time. You must have some (Flash)ROM and drivers suitable to work at boot time (i.e. no ENV: variables, ...)

I see. In that case, if drivers were available and it was worth doing, then I would probably put a compact flash card on the Amiga's internal IDE controller to load the drivers, then boot from the PCI controller.

Shame there are not more drivers available for the Mediator :-(


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moto

[motorollin]

I've just looked at the eflash, and to be honest, I don't see the point. What's wrong with having a small hard disk on the internal IDE channel, or a compact flash -> ide converter, and booting from that with your 3.9 setpatch, Mediator drivers, etc etc?

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moto