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  :-?

[haymiggan]

If you buy a Mediator from Elbox, I will donate my SB128 to you!

The more the merrier....

[lempkee]

mediator will indeed speed your system up.

my mediator is my best investment since i got my 060 in 1995...

i also have a powerflyer from elbox...

and yes you can use ZORRO cards aswell if u want to..

cheers

[adolescent]

One question.  Is it possible to use a half length Zorro II card in a slot that is in line with a half length PCI card?  (assuming they would fit?).

BTW, I already have a SB128, anyone care to donate a Mediator?   :-D

[Cyberus]

Mediator voor A4000D without fast turboboard ...

Ah, switching languages mid-sentence, that's what I like to see! ;-)

[Brian]

@adolescent

Yes it is possible to fit a halflength Zorro card behind a PCI card... of cause there's always some cards that don't fit into what I call standard PCI formfactor either being think enough that it take up 2 PCI slots or long that it don't support halflengt Zorro card behind it but the majority of PCI cards are luckily not in this category. :-D

[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 ...

[Cyberus]

Hmm, I won't be so forgiving next time!

[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 ...

[Cyberus]

Cool, let us know how you get on with it - I myself have a Mediator 4000Di sitting here, that I haven't installed yet - need to remove the battery from the mobo, update the ROMS and buster - that's a point, anyone know where I can get the latest buster rev from???

[Framiga]

Hi Effy

ooops . . too late :-)

I would like to suggest you (if you can afford) the A4000 Mediator with its backplane for a cheep tower case. (no needs to purchase a priced PowerTower even if it is a good choise IMHO)

Beleive me, the A4000 in a tower, fixes a lot of small problems related to the space available, stability and coolings but as already said . . .too late :-)

Ciao

-edit- by the way . . .a Mediator and a PowerFlyer with a 040@25Mhz card!!! mhhh not enought IMHO

As soon as i'll receive my new 68040@33Mhz (40Mhz mask), i'll tell you if you can upgrade your CPU card. (only 12,90 EUR from Vesalia)

[Lemmink]

-edit- by the way . . .a Mediator and a PowerFlyer with a 040@25Mhz card!!! mhhh not enought IMHO

As soon as i'll receive my new 68040@33Mhz (40Mhz mask), i'll tell you if you can upgrade your CPU card. (only 12,90 EUR from Vesalia)

I have to agree you won't use a PCI Board to it's full extend with a mere A3640. In your setup the bus is not the bottleneck, ZIII could handle more then an A3640 could dish out so I don't expect do see more performance from a VooDoo3 the from a ZIII graphicscard.
Ths Problem with the A3640 is that is does not have it's own RAM, so it has to use the A4000 onboard RAM wich is terribly slow. On some occasions an A1200 with a Blizzard 1230 with Fastram runs circles around an A4000 with an A3640.
To make it short, just get ANY accelerator for the A4000 with could take it's own RAM and performance will increase signifficantly.

[Framiga]

Hi Lemmink

yes but he has sold yet his CS 060 :-(

Strange decision IMHO (no offence Effy but really strange)

Ciao :-)

[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  :-?