On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:07:56PM -0500, Jeff Walther wrote:
> 
> There are two versions of the 8600 board.   The first is simply the 
> 8600 and the second is the 8600 Enhanced or Kansas board.

looking at the chips on the backs of the boards, the "old" board is an 8600 and
the "new" board is an 8600 Enhanced.

> of ways to distinguish them.  If you can boot into Mac OS, then 

no i can't, no MacOS media of any type.  ;)

> Still, it seems odd that Apple would mess with the netboot client 
> between revisions of the ROM.

so why won't this stupid thing netboot?  this is extremely annoying.

also, does the fact that the cache slot is missing mean anything to you?  the
pads are still on the motherboard for the cache, but the plastic carrier that
the module would plug into was never soldered on.

the ROM slots is present however. ;)

-brian
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