Subject: Re: DayStar Turbo 04
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@dragon.stack.nl>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/29/2002 17:05:56
> Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
> >I bought a Daystar Turbo 040 today (33 MHz, Euro 10, it was still
> >shrinkwrapped), and I immediately swapped it with my Daystar 030/50Mhz in my
> >IIci with 1.6. It worked.
> >
> >Note that this is a 68040 in a 68030 system.
> >
> >I felt like reporting it, since it isn't explicely named on the supported
> >hardware page, though there is a mention of Kevin Radke working on it.
> >
> I have a 33 Mhz 68040 Daystar that DOES NOT work.  When I swap it into a 
> iici running with a
> 50 Mhz 030 Daystar, it doesn't even make it to the boot screen as it 
> goes into a video hell

Odd, are you sure it isn't a 68040i ? There are 68040lc variants.

> (white screen with about a dozen black lines) straight out of the 
> booter...

Do you load any drivers for any of those? I'm completely driver free (and am
stuck with 25 MHz under MacOS)

 It woks great under MacOS though!!!  I have another 50 Mhz 030 Daystar that
> DOES NOT work in this system, but it has an FPU chip onboard.  Maybe
> that's a problem? 

I added a FPU to my Daystar 050 ripped from an old HP (or so) system. I
never have known if it worked (or stilled used the onboard one.

> Again, works great under MacOS, just not in an otherwise tight NetBSD
> box... This is all pretty much hit and miss I think...

Maybe that is the problem. If it works under MacOS you loaded drivers?