Mediator voor A4000D without fast turboboard ...

[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  :-?

[tweek]

It just got to be good --- You just made me order one too... *

[Cyberus]

Effy wrote:

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

Fingers crossed it does  - I hope it does though! Imagine running AOS4 on an A4000 (c'mon start your flaming guys - negativity, blah, not supported, blah, vapourware, blah, blah)

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

Is the battery furry around the contacts? A leaking battery can ruin your motherboard - replace it ASAP. I still need to  do this myself.

Best way of desoldering? I always used one of those fibre things you drag across molten joints when I was at uni....are solder suckers expensive?

Let me know how you get on Effy, I hope to have more time to get my A4000 up and running over Christmas...

[haymiggan]

Hejsa Tweek!

Velkommen til Amiga Mediator og Amiga.org
Det styrer... it roolz
Povl

[Framiga]

Hi Effy

mmhhh! interesting question . . .i think that should be better to have a SBuster rev.11 (16 MB/sec throughput against of the 4 MB/sec of the rev.9) but i haven't a Mediator ATM, so :-)

Which SB rev. do you have?

Ciao

PS- i had originally the SB9 and when i've upgraded to rev.11, i haven't seen any particular speedup with my GFX card (CV64) . .  . .anyway with Mediator could be useful to have it. Check on Elbox website.

[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 ...

[Acill]

I am afraid that I have got SuperBuster9 ...  is this time to get depressed

Dont worry the buster is only for Zorro cards, not PCI. The MEdiator will handle all that for you. I used my A3000 with a Buster 7 and a Mediator for a long time. I only just put a Buster 11 in and only because I ot it free. You will love using the Mediator. It makes things so noce in your Amiga!!!

One thing to remember! A lot of people have lockup problems with 10/100 speed Ethernet cards. I figured out the problem at last on mine. I just used MiamiDx and then connected my Amiga and cable modem to a router. I went into the router settings and made the DHCP server lease settings never expire. I havent had a lockup since.

[Framiga]

@Acill

well i'm happy for Effy but . . .through what do you think that the data stream of a PCI card on a Mediator pass through until the mobo :-)

Ciao

[Cyberus]

So can someone confirm the answer to the buster question?
I have just got myself a Mediator, and I have Buster Rev 9.
I have a Fastlane z3 controller, but the other cards I hope to use will be PCI
And which gfx card ahould I get? Should I get the one with the most memory, since I read somewhere that the CPU can use its faster memory....

Cheers

[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 ...

[tweek]

Davs Povl!

Det var nu ikke min føste posting. Jeg har bare ikke haft internet de sidste to år (jeg flyttede fra de gamle... , så amiga.org har åbenbart (med rette) ment, at jeg har været for inaktiv.

Nu er den oppe at køre med webspeed <-> linux <-> Amiga, så jeg er igang igen.

Når det så er sagt, så glææææder jeg mig da til min Mediator kommer med posten!

-Tweek

[Cyberus]

And if we don't speak Danish?

Ok, I understand the words "This is my first posting", but the rest?

[x56h34]

Ok, I understand the words "This is my first posting", but the rest?

He is asking if anyone wants his old unused Amiga PPC card for free, which he is about to bin if no one is willing to take it.

OK, I was joking. No clue what he is saying, but I think I've recently bought a CV643D card off him, if that's the same Povl from Denmark.

[Acill]

So can someone confirm the answer to the buster question

Once again a Mediator will work just fine on the older buster chips. I used mine on a Rev 7 buster for two years. The buster is only a Zorro card issue and then only on a few ZIII cards.

[Cyberus]

and I bet its an issue with the fastlane then.....grrr :-(

will check it out...

[Effy]

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