>I have just recieved an SE/30 I bought off ebay for 
>nefarious purposes.  I also have in my posession, a mac 
>SE, with a Daystar Powercache 68030-50, no fpu installed.  
>Can I yank that off the SE adapter, and install it 
>direct into the pds slot on my SE/30, 

Never install any accelerator directly into the SE/30 PDS, unless you have original documentation that says otherwise.  
They require adapters.  

I recently acquired a IIsi with a 50 MHz DiiMO card, which I wanted to put in my SE/30.  
It also came with an adapter with a PDS pass-thru slot and an accelerator slot.  
The very fact that they are labeled that way made me cautious.  
(Note: the much more rare SE/30-specific model of this accelerator has a PDS pass-thru built in, and a different style adapter or adapting electronics built in.)  
After scouring the 'net and some personal emails with Gamba (who has done a lot of work tricking out SE/30's) it appears this is common to at least the IIsi and SE/30 with their odd PDS.

Fortunately the NIC/accelerator combo can be done in the SE/30 without soldering or alterations to the frame.  
With plenty of RAM and a big disk it can still be a sweet little server.

>and will my onboard FPU still function or will the 
>powercache try to take over for it and leave me fpu less?

Yes, you'll be FPU-less.  
The accelerator card takes over all processing functions.

Tim

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