danbeaver wrote:Wow, lots of questions in your post. The Subway USB is automatically recognized by OS4.1's own USB stack as well as Poseidon's.
I didn't really ask a question about the Subway, but thanks for that information! I was only commenting that there is currently NO USB solution being manufactured / sold commercially for use with OS4.1 on an A1200, whether in a Mediator or just on the clockport, or on any other interface on the Amiga such as the PCMCIA port. Those who were able to get a Subway, when they were being sold can maybe feel lucky in that regard, but I didn't think it was worth their cost anyway, just so you've got USB on an A1200. I found the Spider much cheaper, and overall much more suited to a tower setup, as I'd already used the clockport for a HyperCOM 3+, and didn't want to have to take that out to fit the Subway, and seeing as I'd already got the Spider why would I.
Your RTL8029 is supported, but is it seen by Ranger as present? Have you tested it to make sure it works (a PC works well here)? If it is functional, it may fail if the actual cable connection is faulty. DHCP works well if your router supports it, but a manual connection my be helpful to look at.
Long story short, I worked out that I needed to create a file called 'unit0' in a directory called 'RTL8029.device' in ENV-ARCHIVE, and enter the VENDORID and the DEVICEID as the parameters I got from Ranger. Why all this mess when a script could have been written to extract this info, and insert it into a file called 'unit0' during installation I don't know.
As an aside, my setup is dual boot and my OS3.9 setup does not recognize DOS/07; I found that DOS/03 works best for my boot partitions. Once booted I can get most of the file systems recognized in both OS's with the exception being the JXFS.
OK, you've got me interested now, how did you create a DOS/3 partition - what are the parameters, which filesystem,and what options (Cache/International, etc.) make up DOS/3 partition?
I too cannot get the DOS/7 OS4.1.2 boot partition to be recognised from 'cold', so I end up using the OS4.1 Classic floppy disk & CD to part-boot the system to the red/blue/purple reset, and then I take them out of their drives, and let the HDD be recognised from that point and it boots from then on, but I have to have the floppy disk, and CD to hand each time I boot from 'cold', which is a real mess.
Amiga A1200 Blizzard SCSi PPC G3 240Mhz/060-50Mhz, 256MB + 200MB -> Radeon 9200 256MB in Mediator TX, + Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, Sound Blaster Live + TT-SOLO-1 soundcards, Spider USB, Ethernet RTL8139 + RTL8029AS, Adaptec 2940UW SCSI.