Elbox Mediator 4000Di

[Darrin]

I've had a Meditor 4000Di Mk.II in my A4000 for almost a year now. I haven't experienced any jerky video using a Sapphire Radeon9250 128MB. My is loaded up with the Radeon, SB128, Ethernet and USB 2.0 and it all works good together. The higher rez screen modes are really nice. Just remember, the Radeon doesn't mode promote, so you will have to find a solution to use native mode for games and such. I use a Dell2420 monitor. The DVI is connected to the Radeon and the VGA is connected to the AMIGA video out with a C= adapter.

If you decide to get one PM me and I will send you a setup guide that will greatly help you as the one elbox provides is pretty bad.

I've got the 256MB Radeon in my A4000/Mediator setup, along with a FastATA4000, Deneb, Spider II and SB128.  No graphics issues here either.

For native modes I use an Indivision.  I have a Viewsonic LCD monitor and, like you, I've connected the Radeon to the DVI port and the Indivision to the VGA port.  Switching displays just means pressing a button on the monitor.

I agree the installation sucks as the Multimedia CD now has updates and it isn't clear whether you should use the updates instead of what is on teh Multimedia CD or update the CD installation afterwards.  Not to mention what order it should be done in.  I wish they would just market a new CD with just the latest drivers and an updated installation guide.

Setting up the P96 modes is pretty straight forward once you get to grips with the P96 software.  Just remember to test the modes before you save them.

[Darrin]

I have pretty much the same setup as Darrin, without the FastATA4000, Deneb, Spider and SB128....Okay, not really the same... but I use the monitor/indivision  the same way.

The problems I have run into were with lockups in Radeon resolutions.  Higher resolution, the quicker it locks up.  I think my problem is one of the programs I am running.  Once I disabled AmiDock and the memory info program, it locks up less..  Still haven't figured that one out, but it may be a bug in ClassicWB.

Otherwise the video modes are really fast, and if it weren't for the stock 040 and the slow IDE drive, it would feel snappier than Windows 7 does on my system with 8 cores and 8 GB of memory!

slaapliedje

Strange.  I'm using ClassicWB too with Workbench set at 1920x1080.  I created mine using the OS3.9 CD.  Perhaps I should upload my SYS: drive and you could download it to another drive and test it on your system.

What file system are you using?  I use FFS3-DS on 2 x 80GB HDs (each with 2 x 40GB partitions).  I had issues before with stability using SFS.

[Darrin]

Dandys information regarding the Spider is outdated.
The latest poseidon & spider.device works together but it was true for a while that they didn't.
It even seems to work quite fast & reliable but i don't have any numbers to show because i'm a new user. But the deneb is better and will always be.

I'm intrested to know what kind of transfers speeds dandy gets with a 100Mbit/s nic.  Miami/Amitcp is way to slow to get anything near 80Mbit/s even on a fast computer like a pegasos running morphos.

I can confirm this too.  I had a Deneb in my A4000 and updated Poseidon to the latest version.  When I put in a Spider and loaded the drivers the USB stack detected it and once activated it worked like a charm.  I had the Deneb and Spider working at the same time.