Bolle
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Boards for the large version just arrived:
None of the sellers from china could supply me with 120pin connectors so I went and bought a few from mouser.
I plan to have a few cards ready to be shipped out in January.
Price will be 70$ per card - each one put together with love and tested in a 2 PDS card + 1 Accelerator setup.
Compatibility as far as I was able to test myself:
Topper
PowerCache
ok
Turbo040*
works but gives bus errors now and then – might be a driver/settings issue I could not resolve
Asante MacCon 30si
always needed/ok
Radius Iisi Pivot
ok – needs cutting to fit into case
Micron Xceed Color30
ok
Excelan/Shiva/Kinetics Etherport SE30
ok
Full size adapter
PowerCache
ok
Turbo040
ok
Asante MacCon 30si
ok
Micron Xceed Color30
ok
Excelan/Shiva/Kinetics Etherport SE30
ok
Radius Iisi Pivot
ok – needs cutting
The Topper will be shipped with the DiiMo configuration and a GAL with my guess of the equations the original DiiMo card used as it has been proven to work better than the Daystar approach with multiple PDS cards.
Configuration can be changed with jumpers and GAL can be reprogrammed for those of you who are curious
The full size card only uses the DiiMo setup.
Both cards also work as simple PDS extenders without an accelerator if the /BR jumper is removed. You could for example use the large card to fit an ethernet card and the IIsi Pivot into your SE/30.
*Gamba was basically running this setup back then with his IIsi adapter wrong angle hack. Running 4.11 on my Turbo040 - I did not yet go through testing the older firmwares or fiddling with the various settings in QuadControl extensively.
So it might still be possible to get the Topper to run reliably with the Turbo040.
None of the sellers from china could supply me with 120pin connectors so I went and bought a few from mouser.
I plan to have a few cards ready to be shipped out in January.
Price will be 70$ per card - each one put together with love and tested in a 2 PDS card + 1 Accelerator setup.
Compatibility as far as I was able to test myself:
Topper
PowerCache
ok
Turbo040*
works but gives bus errors now and then – might be a driver/settings issue I could not resolve
Asante MacCon 30si
always needed/ok
Radius Iisi Pivot
ok – needs cutting to fit into case
Micron Xceed Color30
ok
Excelan/Shiva/Kinetics Etherport SE30
ok
Full size adapter
PowerCache
ok
Turbo040
ok
Asante MacCon 30si
ok
Micron Xceed Color30
ok
Excelan/Shiva/Kinetics Etherport SE30
ok
Radius Iisi Pivot
ok – needs cutting
The Topper will be shipped with the DiiMo configuration and a GAL with my guess of the equations the original DiiMo card used as it has been proven to work better than the Daystar approach with multiple PDS cards.
Configuration can be changed with jumpers and GAL can be reprogrammed for those of you who are curious
The full size card only uses the DiiMo setup.
Both cards also work as simple PDS extenders without an accelerator if the /BR jumper is removed. You could for example use the large card to fit an ethernet card and the IIsi Pivot into your SE/30.
*Gamba was basically running this setup back then with his IIsi adapter wrong angle hack. Running 4.11 on my Turbo040 - I did not yet go through testing the older firmwares or fiddling with the various settings in QuadControl extensively.
So it might still be possible to get the Topper to run reliably with the Turbo040.
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