Subject: Re: Mac II accelarators
To: Adrian Rollett <acrollet@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Paul Ripke <weripp@itwol.bhp.com.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/25/1997 08:35:14
Adrian Rollett wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience with running accelarated Mac IIs under netBSD?
> I'm thinking of getting an old mac II and running netBSD, and I have a
> sneaking suspicion that I may end up looking for more power. . .
>
Well, the DayStar PowerCache 68040 accelerator I have in my IIsi
doesn't like NetBSD - but then again neither does MacOS 7.5.5.
One of these days I'm going to work on the problem, but I do know it's
somewhere in the MMU initialisation.
My recommendation is, if the Mac has a 68030 processor, you can use
a 68030 accelerator. If it has a 68040, a 68040 accelerator will work,
but if it has a 68030 processor (like the IIsi) a 68040 based
accelerator probably won't work.
Oh, and I don't think the Radius Rockets work either. Anybody want
to confirm all this?
Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
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