> Hello,
> I am fairly new owner of a Mediator busboard for my Amiga 3000.
> I would like to buy the Spider II for high speed usb usage.
> I have been seeing a lot of posts that I don't really understand
> regarding the (Poseidon stack?).

Hello Dan,

A few days ago a post appeared in one of the Polish news list in this respect:
http://www.ppa.ltd.pl/forum_ppa/read.php?f=1&i=2699&t=2568

Here is my translation:

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Yes, I have just received a reply from Elbox.
[...]
Here is the most important part of the message from Elbox:
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Pursuant to the agreement made with Chris Hodges, author of the Poseidon stack,
(mutually agreed official release see here:
http://www.elbox.com/news_02_09_11B.html) Elbox undertook to write hardware
drivers for the Poseidon stack for users of our USB controllers, and the author
of the Poseidon stack undertook to provide problem-free, paid registration of
his shareware software to every Mediator user who asks him for such
registration.

Since making this agreement Elbox has been keeping all his obligations.

Unfortunately, the other party of the agreement, author of the Poseidon stack,
Chris Hodges, has been violating provisions of the agreement for several weeks
now, refusing sales of registration keys to users of Spider cards.

Chris Hodges refuses to answer our messages in this respect.

This dishonest action of Chris Hodges we perceive as an attempt at forcing
Mediator users to buy controllers of the USB 1.1 standard, produced by the E3B
company, with which Chris Hodges is very closely related.

We are now taking steps to cool down Chris Hodges from harming Mediator users.

Independent of this, every Mediator user who wants to use the Spider card and
the Poseidon stack, is fully entitled to demand problem-free registration from
the stack's author: Chris Hodges.

Thank you from your using our technical help.

Best regards,

ELBOX COMPUTER, Technical Support
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I hope this will help.

Jacek