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	Hardware News : SPIDER software update 3.16
	posted by DJS on 17-May-2008 14:52:20 (7200 reads)

Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of a new version of the spider.device driver for the Poseidon stack for the SPIDER and SPIDER II High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers. The new software is available free of charge for all registered users of the SPIDER and SPIDER II High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers.

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The SPIDER software has been reworked in order to achieve the maximum possible performance, especially when SPIDER is used in the Mediator systems equipped with the Radeon 9200 graphic card. The large memory on the Radeon cards enables expansion of the DMA buffer used by PCI cards in the busmaster mode. The spider.device ver. 3.16 allows setting the DMA buffer size for the Spider EHCI controller from 40 kB (as used in the previous spider.device versions) up to 2 MB. The size of the Spider DMA buffer is defined by the Envarc:Mediator/SpiderBuf variable.

Go to the tests page to learn the benchmarks for the SPIDER card with the DMA buffer set to 2 MB. The tests were performed on Amiga 1200 and Mediator 1200 TX with the most popular turbo cards. A 4 GB USB memory stick was used in the tests.

The Hi-Speed USB mass storage devices connected to the SPIDER USB controller reach 3 to 5 MBytes/s (depending on the turbo card), which is fast enough to allow comfortable work with the USB devices like memory sticks, digital cameras and Flash card readers. In case of hard drives we still recommend connecting them to the FastATA controllers, which allow twice as fast transfers (5 to 10 MBytes/s) in the same turbo card configuration (see the FastATA MK-III benchmarks).

Now we are working on the OS4 native USB 2.0 drivers for the Sirion USB stack. They will be included in the next SPIDER update.

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pavlor

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 17-May-2008 16:24:38

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Nice.

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Dwyloc

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 17-May-2008 17:00:49

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Now all it needs is a USB stack so you can use the card.

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Framiga

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 18-May-2008 12:37:32

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wise comment indeed! :-/

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Kicko

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 19-May-2008 6:19:08

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Cool, too bad i dont have any classic amiga to run this update.

Keep up the good work Elbox

EDIT: Missed the part about future driver for os4. If that comes and usb2.0 works.... baby i will order another one :)

Last edited by Kicko on 19-May-2008 at 03:26 PM.

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Crumb

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 19-May-2008 9:53:50

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Quote:
Now we are working on the OS4 native USB 2.0 drivers for the Sirion USB stack. They will be included in the next SPIDER update.

This is the most interesting bit

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Dwyloc

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 19-May-2008 12:14:33

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If a native OS4 driver is produced for Sirion then I may buy a Spider and move my subway USB card into my gaming 030 A1200 but until then I will not be purchasing a card that would require me to pirate a USB stack before I could use it and I would hope that other classic Amiga users who still purchase hardware upgrade would feel the same way.

I am very happy the other elbox hardware I own and I would purchase more hardware from then again in the future as long as it comes with licensed software.

Last edited by Dwyloc on 19-May-2008 at 12:15 PM.

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NutsAboutAmiga

Re: SPIDER software update 3.16
Posted on 20-May-2008 16:08:15

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Quote:
Now we are working on the OS4 native USB 2.0 drivers for the Sirion USB stack. They will be included in the next SPIDER update.

Thats where interesting, maybe I buy one for My AmigaOne-XE