OpenPCI USB Controller Working in Mediator

[Framiga]

looking at here is not that clear!

M5237 exixts

[5237] M5237 PCI USB Host Controller

while here

USB/Firewire PCI chipsets (M5253, M5271, M5273, M5622, M5633)

:-?

[TiredOLife]

You could try Poseidon 3.5
I'm wondering if the block works on just the spider or any USB card attached to the Mediator.

[da9000]

@Crumb:

Thanks for the correction! Also good to hear that it's from scratch, therefore clean, and in ASM, therefore fast and small in memory footprint!


@Framiga:
Nice research! I couldn't find it myself Very useful sites though! (the two links)

[mboehmer_e3b]

The card is a 4-port "Acer Labs M5237 Aladdin-V ALI". I will post a pic of the card and the box if anyone else is interested.

Nice to hear. Did you test with USB2 mass storage also?
I have massive problems with ALi USB2 chipsets on Prometheus (reworked firmware), the ALi works for a period of time, and drops dead afterwards, without any indication why.

For the same price of ALi you usually get NEC USB2 cards, which work (from my experience, taken one full day with LHA tests on a USB2 harddisk) very reliable.

Michael

[Crumb]

@mboehmer_e3b

When could we expect to be able to use the new firmware? It could bring new life to my Prometheus and I could remove some cards...

[Chain]

chipset issame, but its oem

[Chain]

chipset is same, but its oem

[mboehmer_e3b]

When could we expect to be able to use the new firmware? It could bring new life to my Prometheus and I could remove some cards...

We are evaluating the details at the moment, so stay tuned.
Our beta testers reported no further errors.

Michael

[stopthegop]

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http://www.geocities.com/stopthegop/index.html



Correction:  I originally stated it was a 4 port card.  It is in fact a 6 port card.

Edit: If you got an error, try again.  Should be fixed.  Sorry

[LoadWB]

Holy crap.  I just put one of these in my dad's PC... I think I'll find a different card for him and hold onto his!

[wurzel]

Hi guys,

I just managed to get the exact same card as the 1st poster, off ebay, from a guy in Germany.

Give it a couple of weeks to arrive then I shall try it in my Power Tower A1200 with Mediator. I`ll let you know how I got on.

The price? £5.50 plus £5.75 postage

You can see it here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=004&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=140073758393&rd=1&rd=1

wurzel
Currently almost completing his towered A1200, still using a desktop A1200.

[Argus]

@stopthegop

I'm trying to get this to work on a 1200LT4 board.  When you installed the Mediator drivers, did you install the Elbox USB driver or just ArakAttack/OpenPCI (I assume)?

[stopthegop]

I'm not using Elbox drivers.  I installed ArakAttack, selected OpenPCI.device.  Then I installed Poseidan stack.  I can post screen shots of Trident with all the ports running and the various classes later today, hopefully.  My miggy is in pieces atm.  Took it apart to put a new clock battery on the mb.  

Someone asked what slot I had the USB card installed in;  answer is I had it working in any of the top three slots in the mediator.  

[wurzel]

stopthegop wrote:
I'm not using Elbox drivers.  I installed ArakAttack, selected OpenPCI.device.  Then I installed Poseidan stack.  

I`m guessing this is using OS4 on a A4000ppc? If so, then us A1200ers would need the Elbox drivers? I think ArakAttack & OpenPCI are for the PPC?

wurzel

[Argus]

wurzel wrote:
I`m guessing this is using OS4 on a A4000ppc? If so, then us A1200ers would need the Elbox drivers? I think ArakAttack & OpenPCI are for the PPC?

I believe he's using OS3.9 with his setup.  I've tried ArakAttack and Poseidon with a similar OEM Acer Labs 5723 card on a 1200LT4 under OS3.5 but so far no dice; I get an error message in Poseidon 'can't open openpci.library'  :-(
Update: still not working; tried a VIA USB card (pciinfo sees it) but it also fails to initialize under Poseidon 'OpenUSB.device failed'.  I'm using the latest ArakAttack (openpci.library 2.0beta1 68K), Poseidon v3.5 (registered full version), OS3.5, and pci.library 6.2.  So the short of this is that I at least can't get an OpenPCI USB card to work on a Mediator 1200LT4.  Oh well.... :-?

[stopthegop]

I believe he's using OS3.9 with his setup. I've tried ArakAttack and Poseidon with a similar OEM Acer Labs 5723 card on a 1200LT4 under OS3.5 but so far no dice; I get an error message in Poseidon 'can't open openpci.library'  
Update: still not working; tried a VIA USB card (pciinfo sees it) but it also fails to initialize under Poseidon 'OpenUSB.device failed'. I'm using the latest ArakAttack (openpci.library 2.0beta1 68K), Poseidon v3.5 (registered full version), OS3.5, and pci.library 6.2. So the short of this is that I at least can't get an OpenPCI USB card to work on a Mediator 1200LT4. Oh well....  

Does pciinfo show each usb port as a separate entry named "unknown"?  Mine does -- and I suspect that may be why it works.  What I mean is..  perhaps the Elbox driver, not knowing what the card is, lets it pass without running interference?  I tried lots of (mostly newer) USB cards in the mediator before I discovered this card.  I always got weird problems if I had a USB card plugged in.  The weirdness correlated with whether or not pciinfo identified a non-Spider USB card.  The Ali card was the first USB card not to be identified by pciinfo as a "USB" card.  Instead it was "Unknown", and no system instability like with the other USB cards.  Funny, because Poseidan knows exactly what it is!