On Mar 1, 2004, at 09:52 pm, Tom Tubman wrote:
Right. You have a 9600/233.
Actually it's a 9600/200
Luckily, your motherboard can go up to 50MHz with no problem as that was the spec for all the MBoard components in the 7300-9600 PowerSurge series
Only if I have a CPU board with a variable clock speed setting right? I have a Sonnet - enough said?
(though some 256k L2 caches from the 120 MHz models can't do more than 45 MHz, but they can be replaced).
Some 9600s with that defect have the L2 cache soldered to the board, and if you have a CPU that pushes the board up to 50MHz it just won't work right.
For a 233 MHz CPU, the supported bus multiplier was 5x: 233 � 5 = 46.7MHz.
Any idea what it is for a 200MHz? It might be that my board was at 50MHz but my G3/300 card dropped it to 46.7, dunno as my 9600 came stripped.
I experienced no corruption with any ATA cards and I had many of the early models (TurboMax ATA/33, etc.) in many different Macs and clones. They merely ran slower than the rated 33 MB/sec on machines older than the Beige G3 and were never officially supported.
Yeh, it was weird - some people did and some didn't - very much pot luck. I forget the vagaries of it now but I do remember it being an issue. This was early 2001 in the era of the G4 cube and just pre-OS X, when I was first on the PCI Powermacs list and a <gasp> Mac newbie.
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