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The Apple Enet driver appears to have code that reads the PLSCCPort property so I guess the nvramrc script just needs to add this property. A system extension to add the property to the name registry might be more convenient (don't have to worry about nvram being zapped, etc). Just make sure it...

Right. ANS 2.0 ROM will use the AAPL,9500 identifier even if it detects itself to be an ANS machine. An ANS machine (whether using ANS ROM 1.1.20.1 or 1.1.22 or 2.0 or 2.26B6 or 2.26NT) will have PLSCCPort set to 1. A TNT machine will have PLSCCPort set to 7.

The PLSCCPort property is set by ANS 2.0 Open Firmware. It is not set by any other version of Open Firmware. 1 is for ANS 7 is for TNT I talked about this value at https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/apple-network-server-macos-based-roms-found.4756/post-47393 If 1.1.20.1 is not writing the...

If the CD is bootable, then copying all of it to a hard disk partition should make the partition bootable. Then you boot that partition to do a real install to another partition. This only works if the software on the CD doesn't care that it is not booting from a CD.

There shouldn't be a difference. The point of the test is to prove it. If there was a problem, then it could indicate too much noice on the PCI bus, etc.

FireWire is nice because it's 40 MB/s, faster than USB 1.1 and SCSI 2. USB 2.0 doesn't work in classic Mac OS. A FireWire enclosure can be connected to modern macOS but for Tahoe, you need to use USB instead of FireWire. FireWire enclosures may include USB 3.0 but I think they are no longer...

Copy the Mac OS 8.1 installer to a small hard disk partition?

Don't you just need to change the signature in the HFS Plus Volume Header from 0x4858 to 0x482b? Google says no. The format changes the way names are indexed and managed. It says "The safest way to do this is to back up your data, erase the drive with the new format, and then restore your...

Not sure what this means. Since slot F1 has device number @12 (hex), I would expect that address line 18 (decimal) is used for the IDSEL signal for that PCI device. That's what the Power Mac 6500 schematics show (sheet 16 for the ATI-264GT device, area A6 in that diagram). Slot C1 has device...

It depends. Alchemy has a couple options (slot, interrupt, device number): AAPL,e407 (Power Mac 5400) slot A1 0x17 @D slot B1 0x19 @E slot C1 0x1C @F slot E1 0x16 @11 // Ethernet? // same interrupt as bandit // seen in 5400 dump AAPL,Hooper slot B1 0x1C @E slot C1 0x1A...

Power Mac 6360 doesn't have built-in ATI graphics so it might not have the same issue as Power Mac 6500/TAM (Gazelle). The solution was a workaround. I would like to actually find the real bug one day. https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/the-great-gazelle-pci-hack-thread-part-2.38360/post-467825...

Use an oscilloscope to check the timing? Composite sync signal is correct? https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/documentation/cortland/v6/Apple%20-%20IIgs%20RGB%20monitor%20-%20Timing%20chart.pdf https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/Apple_Color_RGB_Monitor/Apple_Color_RGB_Monitor.pdf...

I can't get the emulation to boot. Do I need any special setup for ANS ROM 1.1.20.1 besides attaching the HD to external SCSI? Maybe a dump-device-tree from a real ANS 1.1.20.1 would help. What's the output of these commands before booting Mac OS 9.1? F301A000 @ 8 u.r F301E000 @ 8 u.r...

Ok the reason for the doubled character printing of those LCD messages is that it is outputting the message to both the LCD and the Serial port. DingusPPC displays them together in stdout. DingusPPC doesn't have a separate output for the LCD but you can specify a separate output for the serial port.

To be clear, all the other messages appear normally. It's just these messages that the ANS ROM is doing strangely (outputting the same character more than once). Do these messages appear at all? Begin DRAM Test #1 Begin ROM SIMM TEST Begin NVRAM Test Begin DRAM Test #2...