On Apr 4, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> That's correct, Michael and Matthew. I'm trying to enable the G3
>> upgrade card in the L2 cache slot. The original (and soldered on)
>> 250MHz 603e works just fine. I realize that these cards are a major
>> hack, and it may not be possible to get it to work, but it'd be nice 
>> to
>> have the slightly faster machine if there's a way to do it.
>>
>>
>> dmesg (from custom kernel) is:
>> cpu0 at mainbus0: 603ev (Revision 2.1), ID 0 (primary)
>> cpu0: HID0 90c001<DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE,NOPTI>
>
> That's why I was asking for dmesg output. Certainly won't break any 
> speed records without L2 cache.
>
> What kind of card is it ( besides sitting in the L2 slot ) - does it 
> need any additional software to be recognized by MacOS? If so - does 
> it leave anything funny in OF's nvramrc or something like that? If 
> you're lucky this thing can be enabled with some OF voodoo ( Tim? 
> You're the OF guru. )
>
> have fun
> Michael
>
>

Luckily, if there's no way to get this working, I have the L2 cache 
chip available (it's in a 6400/180 right now).
It's a Sonnet Crescendo card, 300MHz G3. It does require an extension 
to work under MacOS, Nothing left in the nvramrc that I'm aware of.

  -Adam