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Who has the Mediator HAL for MorphOS?

mdma

# 1
Butterfly

Posts: 85 from 2003/5/4

A guy called Rob on amigaworld.net reckons he has a Mediator HAL for MorphOS.

He says

Quote:

I don't know if it would work with this version, but I have a Mediator HAL for MorphOS. I don't have to hand though, it's on my A1200 about 20 miles from here.

Is this true?

Who has it?

Can I have a copy please?
»25.08.05 - 00:53

Nickman

# 2
Just looking around

Posts: 10 from 2005/8/24

Sounds fishy. Why has no one heard of this before. But if it's true. GIMME!!!!!!!
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A1200T, BlizzardPPC 603+ 240Mhz/040 25Mhz
196mb ram. All SCSI.
»25.08.05 - 10:34

FrankBrana

# 3
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 140 from 2003/9/16

From: aGas founder M...

I doubt it even exists :(

There are lots of mediators when compared to Grex. A bounty for the mediator support will be fine
»25.08.05 - 10:56

DJBase

# 4
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 744 from 2003/4/6

From: Germany

How to support this board when you have no docs? Even a bounty won't help. If you want Mediator support ask Elbox.
Mac mini, PowerPC G4 1.5 GHz, ATI Radeon 9200 64 MB, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD, MorphOS 3.18
PowerBook, PowerPC G4 1.67 GHz, ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB mSATA HDD, MorphOS 3.18
»25.08.05 - 11:03

Nickman

# 5
Just looking around

Posts: 10 from 2005/8/24

I guess the author of OpenPCI could do it so why can't it be done again ?

He even made so that you wouldn't need the hw upgrade to use DMA.

http://bvernoux.free.fr/DevPCI.php

[ Edited by Nickman on 2005/8/25 12:26 ]
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A1200T, BlizzardPPC 603+ 240Mhz/040 25Mhz
196mb ram. All SCSI.
»25.08.05 - 11:25

Crumb

# 6
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 730 from 2003/2/24

From: aGaS & CUAZ Al...

Well, the Amiga3000/4000 models seem to be pretty similar to the Prometheus, these models even have Linux support, so I guess that supporting the big box versions won't be a problem.

I have a Prometheus too and I'm slightly surprised of it not being supported officially because all docs are available and Krashan knows it very well (it's a pity that he's too busy to add prometheus support)
»25.08.05 - 13:59

mdma

# 7
Butterfly

Posts: 85 from 2003/5/4

Quote:

DJBase wrote:
How to support this board when you have no docs? Even a bounty won't help. If you want Mediator support ask Elbox.

I did, their reply was.

Quote:

> > Could you tell me when and if you will provide FastATA and Mediator
> 1200 drivers for the newly released MorphOS 1.4.5 for PowerUP cards?

If the 68k AmigaOS emulation is well done in this MOS version, the
Mediator and FastATA drivers should work.

If something does not work we will check were the problem lies.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

Best regards,

Support Department of ELBOX COMPUTER

[ Edited by mdma on 2005/8/25 14:31 ]
»25.08.05 - 14:29

jacadcaps

# 8
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 2971 from 2003/3/5

From: Canada

Well... if you're in contact with ELBOX, you could probably tell them that it seems that the FastATA driver dies when trying to patch MorphOS' scsi.device. MorphOS has a native scsi.device so their patching code is most likely not compatible with it.
»25.08.05 - 15:08

mdma

# 9
Butterfly

Posts: 85 from 2003/5/4

Quote:

jacadcaps wrote:
Well... if you're in contact with ELBOX, you could probably tell them that it seems that the FastATA driver dies when trying to patch MorphOS' scsi.device. MorphOS has a native scsi.device so their patching code is most likely not compatible with it.

Ok, will tell them.

Anything else that may be important for them to know?
»25.08.05 - 15:11

catohagen

# 10
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 297 from 2003/5/20

i think i have mediator hal, from the old days when 0.4 was the only
one available, i think cisc dcc'ed it to me to test if it worked or something.

I have no idea if its ok to share this hal, and i dont even know if its
the real one, but atleast i have 2 hal's in the morphos dir
hal.rom is 28982 bytes and from 10.03.2001
hal.rom_ is 29003 bytes and from 14.02.2001
»25.08.05 - 15:22

mdma

# 11
Butterfly

Posts: 85 from 2003/5/4

Quote:

catohagen wrote:
i think i have mediator hal, from the old days when 0.4 was the only
one available, i think cisc dcc'ed it to me to test if it worked or something.

I have no idea if its ok to share this hal, and i dont even know if its
the real one, but atleast i have 2 hal's in the morphos dir
hal.rom is 28982 bytes and from 10.03.2001
hal.rom_ is 29003 bytes and from 14.02.2001

Have you tried it with MOS1.4.5 and a Mediator?

Does it work?
»25.08.05 - 15:33

catohagen

# 12
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 297 from 2003/5/20

Quote:

Have you tried it with MOS1.4.5 and a Mediator?

Does it work?

nope, i used morphos 0.4 with a1200/ppc/mediator and i think it
worked, and since its just this hal file, i guess it should work on
newer morphos too
»25.08.05 - 15:38

Nickman

# 13
Just looking around

Posts: 10 from 2005/8/24

Now this is just sad. You mean to tell me i could have run MorphOS some YEARS ago ? Why was this never released ? Who has the source ? Why doesn't the MorphOS team know about it ?

So many questions

[ Edited by Nickman on 2005/8/25 16:56 ]
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A1200T, BlizzardPPC 603+ 240Mhz/040 25Mhz
196mb ram. All SCSI.
»25.08.05 - 15:55

mdma

# 14
Butterfly

Posts: 85 from 2003/5/4

Quote:

jacadcaps wrote:
Well... if you're in contact with ELBOX, you could probably tell them that it seems that the FastATA driver dies when trying to patch MorphOS' scsi.device. MorphOS has a native scsi.device so their patching code is most likely not compatible with it.

Here is Elbox supports reply:-

Quote:

We will check what happens.

Frankly speaking I thought that MOS Team has the native FastATA drivers
ready since long time. Someone from the them contacted us and received
all FastATA developer docs few years ago.
»25.08.05 - 17:12