Mediator voor A4000D without fast turboboard ...

[Effy]

Like I said to a close norwegian friend of mine, my life is like a constant flow of waves of which Amiga was a big one and pc a smaller one, but now the pc wave seems to fade away and a new Amiga one is coming. I recently sold my MK2+scsi 68060 card and got a 68040/25 card + 180 euro in return. Two days ago I sold my Picasso IV card to a belgian guy for 143 and a Xsurf card to another belgian guy in Brussels for 50 euro. Now I have got a A4000D with 16 Mb Fast and kick 3.1. Yesterday I managed to squeeze a 6 Gb Fujitsu harddrive under a AOpen 48x12x50 CDRW. Nothing installed yet, no time. Now I seem to be attrackted to the offers on the Elbox site. Until December 7 the porto is free !! For 239,95 euro I can get myself a Mediator 4000D so I can use one of my Voodoo pci cards and a Soundblaster soundcard. Okay, it will still be an original 68040 (without cooler) but the Voodoo card will speed up a lot of things, won't it ?? And I can still use a Zorro card if I need to,
for example a Powerflyer 4000 or a scsi card (that I don't have yet) ...
Am I thinking correct or am I making somewhere a big mistake  :-?

[Effy]

Cyberus : major mistake of me, I always tend to watch my language but it seems that my brain ####ed up one single moment. I apologize, please forgive me dad, shall not do it again ...

[Effy]

Thanx dad !! And thank you all for your comments. I shall now order a Mediator 4000D for my A4000 ...
I thought of getting a Powerflyer 4000 too but I have read that a standard A4000 ide port can make a CDRW work up to 8 speed which is still very acceptable to me ...

[Effy]

Mediator 4000D just ordered using my Visa card ...

[Effy]

Framiga : no offense taken  :-)

If I install the Mediator then I'm ready for that Shark when it comes out  :-)

Do I need a special buster to fit the Mediator  :-?  And what's that about the battery  :-?

[Effy]

I am afraid that I have got SuperBuster9 ...  :-x  is this time to get depressed  :-?
About the battery. It was leaking a bit but not much on the motherboard, so I just cleaned it carefully (Karcher high pressure steam  :-P ) and now it still runs as fast as it did before so I guess I didn't do anything wrong ...

[Effy]

Acill : if that is true then I have no worries,

Cyberus : read this question that I asked ... the answer is still not clear, some say you get more mem and other say you don´t ...

[Effy]

Let me guess, the Fastlane is the scsi card that allows extra Simm memory Bummer for me ...

[Effy]

Acill : that's why I was thinking first of buying a Powerflyer Z3 as well together with the Mediator 4000D, but I didn't buy it after all because the standard ide port will do for a while, also because a CDRW works too on the standard port ... and hoping of course that soon a SCSI pci card can be used ... I've got one Adaptec ready for it ...

[Effy]

Framiga : what has this got to do with my computer ?? I have got a humble 68040/25 and don't feel the need (yet) to have it replaced with a 33 Mhz one because that will probably require another crystal, not ??

[Effy]

Don´t wanna get a Mirage4000 tower, too expensive. I only wanna use a Voodoo5, SB128, networkcard, and maybe a Powerflyer 4000 Z3 with only one big 40 Gb hd and a CDRW 48x12x50. Now why shouldn´t this fit into my humble A4000 D

That´s a contra for the Mirage  :-D