Hi everyone,
Well I have been making head way on the 9600. So far I gutted everything past the PCI bus on my mule system. Reconfigured the ram slots to run the newer PC100 rams. Offed the Grand Central I/O, and everything from there on. Then installed ATA/IDE card, ATTO scsi ULTRA WIDE 80 pin card, only had an Ati Rage Pro II video card lying around, NEC 8 port USB/Firewire card (5 USB ports, 4 external 1 internal, 3 firewire ports 2 external 1 internal), Couple of Seagate 9.1 GB HD, USB keyboard and mouse. I am still struggling with the Hammerhead ram controler to get to run faster than 200 MHz. I am also finding it hard getting reliable clock chips and have had some real unstable units and man don't they screw up settings. So far the bus has run at 125 MHz but with all the other SMDs still on the motherboard I still have to iron out glitches and find out which ones are interfering with data I/O. The Bandit Bus Buffers and Translators have not given me any problems since I clocked them up to 66 MHz. There were 5 clock chips on the board (Mach 5 in this case) now there are only 2. Even though I think I have disabled the rest of the circuts it seems that those solder thru holes are coming back and bitting me. I am glad I chose to use the Mach 5 board because all of the sound and video SMDs on the other style boards would have been a real headache not that it has been easy anyway. I am running Mac OS 9.1 and have Linux ready to go once I have some real reliablity and repeatablity going on. I am also find that I need a real lot of info using assemblers and compliers as well as other code for testing out sub-systems. If any of you can help with this subject I suurrree would appriciate it. Bye 4 now. Jimi
