flawed jai wrote: > > reading these replies triggered a question I thought about when I first > examined the motherboard of my 6360. > > I noticed that it has the L2 cache slot alongside the two RAM slots, > obviously waiting for chips to be inserted, but there is another zone, > next to the L2 slot, that clearly is a repeat of the L2 wiring in the > board, and punchouts matching the area surrounding the L2 cache slot, > which look for all the world like an additional cache zone that was > designed into the motherboard for the purpose of adding another mounting > slot if one wanted to add it. > > I wondered if this was done for the purpose of > ?using the same board architecture again, with more bells and whistles, > and calling it another model of mac with a higher number, or > ?was it a potential they scrapped, and never made use of, or > ?can another cache slot be soldered onto the board and put into play? > and if one did so, where and how, in the ROM or software, would that > second cache slot get enabled for use? > > any of you with 6360's can slide out your mobo drawer and see what i > mean, easily. > > janet
Look just a little closer and you will see that it is a different footprint than the L2 cache, if I had to guess I would say maybe PDS from an earlier revision of the board. Ed T -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
