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I wonder if that PCI bracket was cut and stamped or if it was cut, stamped, and then cut again for the smaller radius.

You could design a 3D printed mini DIN holder. Print it out of plastic or metal. Make it as thick as you like so it can't break or sandwich the mini DIN holder between the PCI bracket and a metal plate (if you don't want to expend the effort to make a mating radius in the metal plate). PCI slot...

The PCI slot cover needs 3 or 4 holes. One big hole for the miniDIN. One small hole (beveled) for the existing screw. Two holes for the stiff bit of sheet metal (two holes so it doesn't rotate). Attach with machine screws (and nuts if the PCI plates are not threaded). Instead of wedging, use a...

Get the ROM checksums from Open Firmware to see if it's an exact match to the Apple ROM? https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/apple-network-server-macos-based-roms-found.4756/post-41390

Can the backside of a PCI bracket be made to have the same shape as the backside of the cutout for a modem jack to receive the bracket of your mini-DIN-8? If the mini-DIN-8 is bolted to a bracket, un-bolt it from that bracket and bolt it to a PCI bracket? My idea was, if you could not figure...

Dumping the entire 8K of NVRAM is overkill. Setting the entire 8K is probably dangerous. In Mac OS X, use the nvram command to view, change, or create nvram variables. In Open Firmware, use printenv and setenv. For the nvramrc variable, use nvedit, arrow keys to move up/down lines, additional...

This looks like something you could attach to a PCI bracket (if it's not too wide?): https://vetco.net/products/pan-md-67000-9s_9_pin_mini-din_female_panel_mount_jack The 9th pin is for Geoport. 8-pins should be sufficient. Maybe have a look at JamPort? http://alexhixon.com/jamport/index.html...

Unzipping "6500 Bridge FW Patch.zip" on modern macOS puts the resource fork in a separate file. The zip doesn't appear to include FinderInfo (it assumes all the FinderInfo exists in the resource fork)...

Make a serial connection to the modem port of the Power Mac 6500. On the other computer, startup a serial terminal app. Boot into Open Firmware, gather some info with this command. dev / ls unselect-dev " devalias" evaluate " printenv" evaluate dump-device-tree words Maybe try without the...

I'm working on a method to load fcode images from disk for PCI cards. It's currently only for Open Firmware 2.4 but can be adapted to other Open Firmware versions. It won't work for PCI cards that read their own ROM which is probably what the fcode for this SATA card does to load the real NDRV...

@Arbee , from your dumps, it appears the 4KiB DeclData is in a separate rom chip (341-0607-A.bin) than the 1MiB data. Therefore, SlotsGrab should not be used to grab the ROM because the DeclData uses only byte lane 3 while the rest of the memory space may be using all 4 byte lanes (32-bits)...

#3 only has 5 pins. #5 has 8 pins. Check continuity to see if the 5 pins are the same in both?

SlotsDump only grabs the part of the ROM that contains the DeclData. SlotsGrab was updated to round the size to the nearest power of 2. You could modify the last commit in my SlotsDump GitHub repository to make SlotsGrab capture 1 MiB or 16 MiB or whatever. Since the address is FExxxxxx then 16...

The 77D.41F6 ROM (1998-08 - B46FFB63 - PowerBook G3 Wallstreet PDQ) has these two items in the Universal Tables: gestaltPowerBookG3Series (312) ; PowerBook G3 “WallStreet” (cpuIDRISC|$3042) gestaltPowerBookG3Series2 (314) ; PowerBook G3 “WallStreet” (cpuIDRISC|$3046) The earlier 077d.41f5 ROM...

ROM Maps for both of them exist in my fork of 68k-mac-rom-maps My fork of rom_fiend with my fork of HexFiend can be used to view the Universal Tables with the Product Info, Decoder, box flags, hardware present bits, etc.

The supermario source code has "STM Version 2.2, Aaron Ludtke" instead of "STM Version 2.0, Scott Smyers". The source code should explain how the STM is triggered but I'm not sure what the entry point is. Which ROM (checksum) does the Wombat Quadra have?

Check the nvram to verify that the boot device is set to the drive and partition that contains OS 9? I think the Startup Disk preferences panel in Mac OS X should change the nvram parameters correctly. Check nvram -p to see how it changes depending on what is selected in Startup Disk preferences...

Yup, the dl command doesn't give much feedback except for a reminder at the beginning in later versions of Open Firmware to press Control-D to end the download. The lack of feedback makes the dl command be able to receive characters faster (because it's not echoing characters to the console)...

Something weird happened with the dl command - 10 items were placed on the stack (according to the A > prompt)? Did you paste something different than before? In a case like that, it may be better to paste normally without the dl command so you can see what's happening after each line. The...

I would accept a fresh proper dump to see if anything interesting exists beyond byte 41. Standard PCI config registers are at least 64 bytes. All 256 is useful when a device uses config space for other registers or defines PCI capabilities. The Gazelle ROM (Open Firmware 2.0.3) has fcode for...