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Not quite. As long as the PCI network card was inside of a slot, PC Card networking did not work at all. Even when the onboard ethernet was selected to be used in AppleTalk and TCP/IP control panel. Only after removing the PCI ethernet card, the onboard controler was found.

Last year, I found a 7" PC Compatibility Card at ebay and plugged it into my 9600. This machine already had a ATI 7000, a G3 upgrade running at 450 MHz a couple of DIMM sticks and a Sonnet Presto Gigabit PCI network card. Initally, the PC Compatibility card had a 4MB DIMM installed, which was...

Meanwhile I dared to close the housing without a second additional fan. I kept it running a few minutes with some benchmarks, shut it down, immediately opened the housing and touched the heat sink of the Encore to see if it was burning hot or if it was cooler than with open housing. The latter...

Shuriken identifies itself as 10.4.12 and brings some enhancements. Yes, sort of community release.

Thanks for the advice! I tried it with the self-build adapter and after fumbling with the cache enablers, firmware patches and drivers, I have the card currently running MacOSX 10.4.12. It shows as running at 733MHz and with XLR8 MACh Speed Control, I can see that now all caches are recognized...

Thanks for the pinout and sorry for bringing this thread up again. I recently got hold of a 700MHz Encore. Unfortunately without a proper power adapter cable as well. Therefore, thanks to your pinout, I will try to build an adapter, so that I can run this card in my beige G3. Is it a bad idea...

Thanks for this hint. I'll try this, when I give the SATA controller another go.

Thanks for another hint with the TechNote. Unfortunately my knowledge is not deep enough to derive something from it related to the situation of my PM9600.. The used CPU is a Sonnet G3@450MHz upgrade driven (under MacOS7.5.5-9.2.2 by the PowerLogix Cache Profiler driver as the Sonnet one seemed...

Thanks for your insights! Need to google a little to understand more of it. :) Installing and booting into 10.2.8 succeeds, if only the SCSI part is active and the SATA controller is removed. Even if the SATA controller is present, but not used, whilst booting Jaguar from the SCSI hard drive...

To resume the story of my PowerMac 9600, as I had some time during the holidays to continue investigations regarding the issue, that I encountered in October: All the Classic MacOSes boot and run fine, no matter if installed on the SCSI HD or the SATA SSD. But when I try to boot into the SCSI...

Me is another one sayin thanks! It was pretty easy converting a SATA controller to a Mac version, that can boot! Grabbed two "Adaptec AAR-1210SA 2xSATA RAID Adapter Board PCI Controller Card", flashed it with the patched flasher from dosdude1, clipped pin 8, attached a Samsung Evo 840...

I just fired up my PM 6100 and verified: In MacOS 8.6, I was able to set the colors to 16 colors or even to black and white. The sound control panel for output lets me set the sample rate, but does not offer a selection of 8 vs. 16 bit In MacOS 7.1.2, color selection is also available. The sound...

With a booted OS 9. Need to look up, which one I used... The file/archive is called mac9x-8169(100).zip Sorry, that I can't remember for sure, where I got it from. Likely from here: https://everymac.com/mac-answers/mac-os-9-classic-support-faq/mac9x-8169(100).zip which was linked here...

System Profiler does not show me infos regarding achieved link status (fields are just empty ( - ). But when I look at the link status in the web ifc of my switch, it says, that it achieved 1000M link. Looks like achieving link does not succeed on first try, but it seems, that auto...

Just to share an experience from the last days: Last year I bought a Sonnet Presto PCI-Card to upgrade one of the PCI Macs to Gigabit. Choosing a product from Sonnet, without prior verification, I suspected, that I will find drivers for MacOS9 more likely, than when I blindly chose any gigabit...