Mystery Daystar PDS card.

[TheWhiteFalcon]

So my Quadra has this in the PDS slot.

I have no idea what it does, and I couldn't find a pic of another Daystar card that looks like it. It does boot just fine without the card.

Any ideas on what it's for?

 

[pintodave]

Just guessing but it may be a cache card. From the looks of it, those chips look like memory of some type.

 

[rickrob]

Yep, it looks like one of their PowerCache cards

 

[techknight]

Cache card for sure. chip layout is a dead giveaway. 

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

So...does my Quadra need it?

 

[johnklos]

No, you don't NEED it. It just makes things faster.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Probably should have worded that better, would it benefit from it (which you've answered). I knew the IIci needed one for best performance, wasn't sure on the Quadra.

 

[Unknown_K]

Just a cache card for a PDS Quadra. That one is 25mhz so a Quadra 950 would work or 700? Cache does speed up a 68040, and if you have nothing else in that slot why not.