Subject: Re: 6100 with G3 anyone?
From: Gavin Hemphill (hemphill@drea.dnd.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 14:09:55 MST
The old Maxpower cards work fine in a 7100/66, mine was a 266Mhz card,
as long as the Maxpower init, which switches to the new processor, runs
before the booter - either the MkLinux booter or bootx (boot fully into
the system then start). The only real problem I had was the lack of the
ability to use the AV card. Note that setting up on one of these is NOT
a plugnplay operation you have to be prepared to do a lot of playing
around with installation on a "modern" machine etc. (and have a backup
MkLinux partion to fall back on since booting the new kernel seems to
make the partition unbootable by mklinux even after you "undo" all the
new stuff :-) YMMV however.
G++
Michael J Flaherty wrote:
>
> Interesting. The older ones work and the newer ones don't ? Something to do
> with Sonnet's "bus-doubling technology", perhaps ?
>
> How do the old ones work anyway ? Is there something in the Oe kernel which
> puts the 601 to "sleep" in the same way as the Sonnet extension in Mac OS ?
>
> MJF
>
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