After the recent thread concerning ASP & Tattletech, I decided to check it out for myself:
The machine is an 8600/300 AV. I replaced the original 604ev MachV with a sonnet G3/500/1meg, and installed an ATA133 and a 60 gig ide and left the original 4 gig scsi installed. I run 9.2.2 off of the scsi drive and Jag off of the IDE drive- 2 partitions, first 8 gigs for X. 1gig ram. I've running this setup rock solid for over 6 months. First, both apps (under both OS's) reported the machine id as 69 and identified it as an 8500. The 8600 id number is 103. The only reason I can figure for the id being incorrect is that both the 8500 & 8600 were supposedly built on the same "nitro" mobo. Am I correct in assuming that the real difference between the machines is in the processors ( and physical looks/size). According to my info, the 8500 came with 120,132,150 & 180 mhz 604e's and the 8600 came with 200mhz 604e's and 250 & 300mhz 604ev machV's, although the were all stuck to the same Mobo - is this correct info and By replacing the original processor is ASP and TT now id-ing the machine based on MOBO info? With the original processor, ASP id's the machine as 103 and 8600 with a 604ev. Second, funny thing- under 9.2.2 ASP identified a phantom partition between the 2 partitions of the 60 gig ide drive. Calling it untitled 2 and gave it a size of something like 48 gigs. No such drive/partition exist. Hmmmm. Drive setup, TT & scsi probe didn't see the phantom....could sure use another 50 gigs without the rebate hassle... Also TT said my ram was interleaved. Am I missing something here, or can someone explain to me how my ram could be interleaved when all the ram banks are full with chips of equal size? It was my understanding that this referred to ram of different sizes being configured in a certain way in the ram banks. At least ASP could correctly identify them all. Onto backside cache.... ASP under 9.2.2 says that I have 2megs of "external" backside cache and 0 megs of internal cache, under X it just says 1meg cache. I didn't check TT. By now I'm not sure I care anymore. Sonnet's tag has always been: no switches, no Cp's, blah, blah, etc. I see you guys referring to "enabling the cache" a lot via the cache enabler download you refer to. The question I've been meaning to ask is: is this only for the specific upgrade cards you mention (since sonnets cache is on the card) or can this benefit the sonnet upgrade as well by re-enabling onboard cache? Will it even work? Sonnet says to remove any onboard cache for compatibility issues.... information overload...? ~~~~~~Tom. -- 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
