Re: Fwd: mac status, was Re: time setting on 950
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> On 4/29/07, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
>
> > There was an old version of one of my IRQ patches that would hang the
> > NuBus when a slot driver (e.g. SONIC) was closed. Since the IDE
> > interrupt is also on a NuBus slot, this would lock up the shutdown
> > process. It won't affect SCSI machines in the same way.
>
> ?? Unless it had the SONIC ethernet card ? the add-on card i was
> thinking of buying, some others may have them (works in "lcIII" slots).
I'm pretty sure that the IDE-hang bug in that kernel would be triggered by
any NIC, SONIC or otherwise, in the LC/Quarda 630.
> >
> > >
> > > so if sonic driver is ok now, would that be a better / faster one
> > > than the Asante or Farollon chips. have one asante card now, between
> > > two machines. could buy a sonic. costs a little bit more.
> >
> > Either one should work fine, but I would expect the SONIC driver to be
> > marginally faster since it uses a zero-copy algorithm.
>
> q630 also has a comm slot. there may be a card which works in here, but
> I am not sure if the quadra is typeII or what the requirement is. still
> it would be nice to get "full speed" that is 10Mbps rather than 800kbps.
The spec sheet says the LC/Quadra 630 will accept one comm-slot or one
LC-PDS card. I don't know which is faster, but my experience says the
SONIC cards are more likely to be comm-slot. I'm pretty sure that
comm-slot II is found only on powermacs.
-f
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