ELBOX New Spider device

[mboehmer_e3b]

They did remove the atc, programmed it and soldered it back on, looks like they didn't have a test clip for easy programming.
But yes you can reflash it. I like .5... instead of .5..3

They plugged the 5$ card into a PC, started the NEC supplied programming tool, changed the subsystem ID, removed the card and put the yellow sticker on.
The ATC chip can be reprogrammed by PCI accesses over the NEC chip. No need to start soldering. NEC provides all necessary information to registered users of their webpage.

Just to mention it: Spider won't work on AOS4.x Classic. The Mediator does not allow real DMA (just PCI-PCI DMA between PCI cards, not to Amiga motherboard), and as the NEC chip (as pure PCI solution) can only operate on DMA, you're done.
DENEB can at least be operated in Zorro III PIO mode with Poseidon running under M68k emulation on AOS4.x classic.

Michael

[mboehmer_e3b]

Check out the solder work on my Spider 2 card. The serial eprom has been removed and they had some work done to the low voltage dropout regulator.
Look at the 'blob' at the tab (Vout) on the regulator not to speak of the work on C10.

Agreed. Maybe you only get 3.3V only card nowadays, with the LDO missing, so it was added (no 3.3V supply on older Mediators). Most PCI cards can be fixed for 3.3V or 5V only systems, take the RTL8139 100MBit cards, old versions have an LDO, newer ones two series diodes, and most new one rely on 3.3V from PCI. But solderpads in most cases survive, so cards can be adjusted.

Pretty sure that there's some programming tool provided by NEC, anyhow.

Michael