Mediator and MorphOS

[Acill]

I know that MorphOS doesnt have drivers for the Mediator, but has anyone ever tried to use the drivers under the emulation? I would guess you need to remove the openPCI stuff for it to work if it will at all. i'd love to hear from anyone that has tried it.

[Dandy]

Acill wrote:
I know that MorphOS doesnt have drivers for the Mediator, but has anyone ever tried to use the drivers under the emulation? I would guess you need to remove the openPCI stuff for it to work if it will at all. i'd love to hear from anyone that has tried it.

Did you already try it?
What results did you get?

[Blade]

Well IIRC that has been tried of course, but imho it even wasn't
worth the effort; I am no expert regarding Elbox products,
however afaik they do some evil mmu hacks with their drivers,
so this simply won't work in MorphOS (and as far as I read lately,
this seems to even a Problem for OS 4.0 now).

[Boot_WB]

I seem to recall reading a thread somewhere (may be on the mediator yahoo site, may be on MOS site) about elbox suggesting testing non-dma cards (ie rtl8029 ethernet) in the mediator under MOS to see what would happen.

Don't know if anyone has done it, and I'm currently waiting for such a card to arrive from a slow-delivering ebay merchant  so I'll test it in my mediator-bvision setup when I get the chance (prob weekend).

If you see some sort of mushroom cloud rising over Sheffield (a la "Threads") you'll know what it is. :-D

[humppa]

Don't know if anyone has done it, and I'm currently waiting for such a card to arrive from a slow-delivering ebay merchant so I'll test it in my mediator-bvision setup when I get the chance (prob weekend).

So did it work in the end?

[humppa]

 :bump:

Boot_WB wrote:
I seem to recall reading a thread somewhere (may be on the mediator yahoo site, may be on MOS site) about elbox suggesting testing non-dma cards (ie rtl8029 ethernet) in the mediator under MOS to see what would happen.

Don't know if anyone has done it, and I'm currently waiting for such a card to arrive from a slow-delivering ebay merchant  so I'll test it in my mediator-bvision setup when I get the chance (prob weekend).

If you see some sort of mushroom cloud rising over Sheffield (a la "Threads") you'll know what it is. :-D

Any update?

[Boot_WB]

It took a couple of weeks for the RTL8029 to arrive, after which time I had a host of other problems running bvision and bppc.

Plus, in trying to repair a B1240 which I'd bought as non-working I managed to fry my a1200 motherboard, although I didn't realise this at the time - a couple of weeks later the graphics started to corrupt, then got yellow screen of bad chipram on startup, then I couldn't even boot up workbench from the hard drive.

I never got around to trying, and have totally disassembled the 1200/ppc setup at the moment.  Sorry.

[_ThEcRoW]

Use OpenPci drivers. The elbox ones are ****.

[SuperTurbo]

can they be used with the mediator??

[Rob]

@Acill

There was a Mediator HAL for the original MorhOS release.  I found MorphOS to be very unstable at the time, simply closing a workbench window would result in a lockup.

That may be because I had a highly patched 3.9 install, rather than a clean 3.1 partition.

I did manage to get Wipeout 2097 run a bit faster than with 3.9/WarpOS, fast enough to make it worthwhile to swap a few libs and startup-sequences in order to boot MOS.

It has unfortunately been reported that this HAL is incompatable with the latest release of MOS for classic.