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What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 11:25:50
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| Hi All
Don't think I be buying any more Individual computer products any more if this is the service you get. I have now emailed Elbox to see what there take is on it.
Hi,
I am not responsible for the Mediator - please turn to Elbox for support on this.
ciao, -- Jens Schönfeld
Am 16.02.2018 um 12:05 schrieb Richard Statham: > HI > > > So how does one install A Radeon GFX card with a ACA1233 and Mediator if > the MMC config asks the jumper to 8mb which then causes the Amiga to > freeze when you try to run Screen mode prefs or Picasso96 prefs? > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Jens Schoenfeld > *Sent:* 16 February 2018 11:01 > *To:* Richard Statham > *Subject:* Re: Mediator TX A1200 plus ACA1233 > > > Am 16.02.2018 um 11:51 schrieb Richard Statham: >> HI >> >> >> when you say board jumper do you mean mediator or ACA ? > > > Mediator, of course. The ACA1233n does not have jumpers at all, and the > ACA1233 only has a "switch-off" jumper. That's probably not what you want. > > ciao, > -- > Jens Schönfeld _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 11:32:26
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This was first reply
Hi,
the ACA1233 (without "n", meaning the red board) does not use Autoconfig at all, and it does not mess with the lower Z2 space where the PCI board resides.
In other words: You should be able to set the board jumpers to "there is no accelerator installed", and it should boot. Since the ACA1233 will only add memory to the $00c0.0000 space where the PCI board should keep away, there is nothing else I can think of.
If you have the ACA1233n (black board), it will make a Z3 autoconfig for the accelerator memory. This may interfere with the Elbox PCI board; you may have to fiddle with jumpers for accelerators.
ciao, -- Jens Schönfeld
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 13:29:48
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why should Jens provide support for Elbox's product?
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 13:51:36
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I think Jens gave you a decent reply and then referred you to Elbox. Nothing wrong with that. |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 20:36:00
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His reply dont make sence as it does not matter what jumper settings are used mediator needs to be set to 8mb or you cant run mmc config, When in this mode amiga freezes when opening sceen mode or picasso96. So card is useless with mediator and GFX. Now going to see if I can at least get network card to work. AS that does not require 8mb jumper setting
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 21:07:38
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I have to agree with the other two members here, that Jens gave you good replies to your questions and complaints. He is not responsible for problems with your mediator board, and all the different expansion cards that could be installed into it.
I may not agree with everything Jens says, or does, but generally, I think he has been good at supporting his products, for a small basically one man hardware creator, in a tiny niche market/community. |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 21:13:46
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Gets better cant get network card to work either pciinfo see it but when I try genesis wizard I get unable to open device devs:networks/fastethernet.device unit 1. I have tried setting it as unit 0 as well still the same. Is it genesis is not a good tcip stack or something else? _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 22:04:38
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I give up again. Wait for stand alone vampire and then selll all this crap. _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 16-Feb-2018 23:58:48
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Might I suggest this while you wait for a stand alone vampire? _________________ x86/MorphOS 4.0
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 4:30:37
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Looks like they should have spent more on the screen and less on the Disney license. |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 18:19:28
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Lol funny. _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 21:18:24
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Lol too, I think I would pass that one ;) Last edited by marko on 17-Feb-2018 at 09:18 PM.
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 21:39:18
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Bet we would all buy one if it ran os4.2 lol _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 22:00:27
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In THAT case, Yes haha _________________ AmigaOS 4.1 FEu2 on Sam440ep-flex 800MHz 1GB RAM C128, A500+, A1200, A1200/40, AmigaForever 2008+09+16, 5 x86/x64 boxes Still waiting (or dreaming) for the Amiga revolution... m4rko.com/AMIGA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 22:15:22
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Forgot to say it won't have network or sound out of the box drivers still in development lol _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 17-Feb-2018 23:28:33
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Stick to AGA our of the RGB port dude, and PCMCIA networking and you won't go wrong. _________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 18-Feb-2018 11:32:15
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Gets better cant get network card to work either pciinfo see it but when I try genesis wizard I get unable to open device devs:networks/fastethernet.device unit 1. I have tried setting it as unit 0 as well still the same. Is it genesis is not a good tcip stack or something else? |
First of all you have to specify the name with correct case. FastEthernet.device is correct, fastethernet.device does not work.
Secondly FastEthernet.device like many other Mediator drivers needs the gfx card RAM for DMA. To make the gfx card RAM available, you need to successfully install and run Picasso96. Only MediatorNET.device works without gfx card.
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Re: What crap support Posted on 18-Feb-2018 11:37:20
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Im more inclined to put the blame on the mediator here. Why on earth does MMC specifically need to be set to 8MB? 8MB or more makes sense, but specifically 8MB?
While Ive never been a fan of the support offered by IC in this case he's answered you as best he can, even though its something you should be contacting Elbox about. |
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Re: What crap support Posted on 19-Feb-2018 6:43:54
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| The A1200's expansion port is a modified Zorro II bus can only address 8MB of RAM (4 if you expect to use the PCMCIA slot) It Sounds like a problem with the Mediator not seeing the ACA and mapping itself to it's address space (probably due to the special way the ACA handles its Fast RAM)
I have an ACA1233n and it uses a lot of tricks to get the best performance out of the '030 (Including fast Zorro II mode) however Sysinfo can see it as s Zorro board, can it see yours?
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Re: What crap support Posted on 19-Feb-2018 9:01:49
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Mine has also had the fpu fitted could this cause and issue? _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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