Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-16 Thread Snook, John R
At 09:12 -0600 on 15/01/03, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: Is this theoretical, pickle, or do you know someone that's actually done it? I know someone who had it working just as a proof of concept, but I can't remember who it was, and I'm reasonably sure he didn't put the case back on, which

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-16 Thread the pickle
At 08:39 -0800 on 16/01/03, Snook, John R wrote: 2. Will the FPU on the SE/30 logic board conflict with the Turbo 601 FPU? Somehow the Turbo 601 manages to work OK in a IIci, which also has an FPU, so unless there's something in the ROM of the SE/30 that prevents disabling of the onboard FPU -

SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread Alexei Prostov
Hi, Is there a way to upgrade SE/30 to PPC? -- Alexei Prostov -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Compact Macs list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread Stuart Bell
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Alexei Prostov wrote: Hi, Is there a way to upgrade SE/30 to PPC? There always _a_ way! 1. Poor Man's Grey Scale Project to make the monitor produce 640 x 480 see http://www.stuartbell.dsl.pipex.com/PowerCC/PMGSP/PMGSP.html 2. PCB and

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread the pickle
At 12:02 + on 15/01/03, Stuart Bell wrote: Is there an _economic_ way? Good question! ;-) How about... Install IIsi adapter to use IIci cache cards. Install necessary pass-through/angle adapters to make IIci cache slot vertical. Install Turbo 601 in your new vertical IIci cache slot

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Is there an _economic_ way? Good question! ;-) How about... Install IIsi adapter to use IIci cache cards. Install necessary pass-through/angle adapters to make IIci cache slot vertical. Install Turbo 601 in your new vertical IIci cache slot inside your SE/30. It should work, though I would

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread Gamba
I tried that. It didn't work. I don't know why. Any ideas? johnsn If you tried it with stock ROM simm then maybe it would work with a 32 bit clean a ROM simm. Gamba http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2 -- Compact Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/. Support Low End Mac

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread Jeff Walther
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:18:16 -0500 From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:02 + on 15/01/03, Stuart Bell wrote: Is there an _economic_ way? Good question! ;-) How about... Install IIsi adapter to use IIci cache cards. Install necessary pass-through/angle adapters to make IIci cache

Re: SE/30 PowerPC Upgrade

2003-01-15 Thread the pickle
At 08:00 -0800 on 15/01/03, Gamba wrote: I tried that. It didn't work. I don't know why. Any ideas? johnsn If you tried it with stock ROM simm then maybe it would work with a 32 bit clean a ROM simm. The same setup has worked fine in a IIcx for people I know, and I could probably try this at