New Mediator 1200 TX and OS 41 Final Edition
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:45 pm
Hi all,
Recently I've acquired a nice Elbox case together with Mediator 1200 TX and 4 PCI cards from AMIGAstore.eu:
* Radeon 9200 128 MB
* Fast Ethernet RTL8139
* Soundblaster 128 4.1
* Spider II USB
I've built everything from those parts, my Amiga 1200 board, a simple IDE on board controller for CF + CD, etc. The system works and I'm running in 1920x1080 true color.
So, the Radeon was recognised automatically, but so far I've not been able to get any of the other PCI cards working.
First I tried the MMCD and update for the Mediator board provided by Elbox. Later it turned out the drivers only work for OS 3.1 - 3.9 and that OS 4.1 has its own means of dealing with a PCI bus board. All good. However, there's close to zero documentation from Elbox or anywhere else where I've looked.
This is what I run into right now:
Ranger reports all PCI cards with correct types in the order as pointed out at the top of this post.
Ethernet: doesn't find the card at unit 0. Then again, the driver that's part of OS 4.1 is called 'RTL8059', not 'RTL8139'. On the other hand, there's no 8139 to be found anywhere (where I've been looking so far)
Soundblaster: although AHI is part of OS4.1, somehow sb128.audio isn't distributed by hyperion as part of OS 4.1. I found one on OS4Depot and I may try this one later, but I'd rather first get ethernet to work to save money and effort on burning CD's for just a few files every time I try something .
Spider: don't know where to find OS 4.1 drivers to begin with. I've installed Poseidon 4.4, but the accompanying driver from Elbox called spider.device apparently talks to the pci.library from MMCD that's incompatible with OS4.1. Using pci.library in any way indeed leads to an immediate system hang. Makes sense if OS 4.1 has its own (protected) way of dealing with PCI hardware where pci.library would interfere and cause memory overwrites and/or race conditions.
Apart from the above I must say I'm super excited to seeing my A1200 running OS 4.1 on a high resolution. Dare I say it's even more 'fun' than playing with my X5000
Anyway, any suggestions are appreciated to getting my PCI cards working!
Cheers,
Ralph
Recently I've acquired a nice Elbox case together with Mediator 1200 TX and 4 PCI cards from AMIGAstore.eu:
* Radeon 9200 128 MB
* Fast Ethernet RTL8139
* Soundblaster 128 4.1
* Spider II USB
I've built everything from those parts, my Amiga 1200 board, a simple IDE on board controller for CF + CD, etc. The system works and I'm running in 1920x1080 true color.
So, the Radeon was recognised automatically, but so far I've not been able to get any of the other PCI cards working.
First I tried the MMCD and update for the Mediator board provided by Elbox. Later it turned out the drivers only work for OS 3.1 - 3.9 and that OS 4.1 has its own means of dealing with a PCI bus board. All good. However, there's close to zero documentation from Elbox or anywhere else where I've looked.
This is what I run into right now:
Ranger reports all PCI cards with correct types in the order as pointed out at the top of this post.
Ethernet: doesn't find the card at unit 0. Then again, the driver that's part of OS 4.1 is called 'RTL8059', not 'RTL8139'. On the other hand, there's no 8139 to be found anywhere (where I've been looking so far)
Soundblaster: although AHI is part of OS4.1, somehow sb128.audio isn't distributed by hyperion as part of OS 4.1. I found one on OS4Depot and I may try this one later, but I'd rather first get ethernet to work to save money and effort on burning CD's for just a few files every time I try something .
Spider: don't know where to find OS 4.1 drivers to begin with. I've installed Poseidon 4.4, but the accompanying driver from Elbox called spider.device apparently talks to the pci.library from MMCD that's incompatible with OS4.1. Using pci.library in any way indeed leads to an immediate system hang. Makes sense if OS 4.1 has its own (protected) way of dealing with PCI hardware where pci.library would interfere and cause memory overwrites and/or race conditions.
Apart from the above I must say I'm super excited to seeing my A1200 running OS 4.1 on a high resolution. Dare I say it's even more 'fun' than playing with my X5000
Anyway, any suggestions are appreciated to getting my PCI cards working!
Cheers,
Ralph