eBay: A2000 with 060 accelerator, ethernet

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That's one purty beastie.

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-D- wrote:
The Wildfire is the only Amiga accelerator with DMA ethernet... :-o

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Though I am perfectly happy with the TekMagic, had I known red would be getting a Wildfire I would have held out a while and spent the extra couple hundred bucks... Wildfire + PIV and deneb would make a seriously badass A2000.

Some questions.  Was there finally an MNI driver made for Miami for the Wildfire's ethernet?  Even if not, Miami should be just as happy with the SANA-II driver.

A bad-ass box, no doubt, but would the extra speed from the CPU card make up for the slow Zorro II bus dealing with the PIV and USB?

Also, there are two PCI slots on the back of the card, one for a known video card.  How difficult is it to find the video card?

You know, there are several boards out there with some kind of local PCI bus -- the Wildfire, CyberStorm, and the PIV -- it seems like there would be some way to exploit one of those.  Something like the G-Rex or the CyberVision and the CyberStorm but, you know, with modern support.

Shoot.  If the PCI slots on the back of the Wildfire are Mini-PCI, then there could be a whole world of peripherals at our beck and call!  *sigh*  Though, wouldn't a PCI bus local to the CPU be faster than over Zorro III?

Ok, brain shutting off.  I'm wayyyy to tired right now.

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rkauer wrote:
 I second -D- 's opinion. Zorro-II will only be a PITA if you have to use a Z-2 SCSI (or ,even worse, IDE) controller.

 Or Z-2 expansion memory.

 For expandability, stick with Zorro-3 Amigas (3 & 4k) or A1200+ MediTator.

Not arguing the expandability factor, the Wildfire, as do other 060 cards for the 2000, has on-board SCSI which maps outside of ZII space (I believe ZIII space, but I am not positive.)  So the SCSI for these cards is faster than ZII expansions.

My query was directed at the through put of a Deneb USB 2.0 card over ZII, in concert with the PIV on ZII.  Obviously, the USB card needs the speed of ZIII to operate a USB 2.0 high-speed.

So, all-in-all, on a 2000, it's no different than, say, an older Pentium III-based computer with USB 1.1.  

Me, personally, I have a Blizzard 060.  I'd happily sell that if I could get a Wildfire.  My 2000/060 is a nice machine, but what I'd really like is to convert my 4000D/060 with PIV & XSurf to a USB-mostly machine using the Deneb: network, sound, etc.  Well, that and a CyberStorm PPC, of course :-D