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    PowerMac 6500 PCI graphics card options? (Feeling overwhelmed)

    What about Nvidia graphics cards? Which have 2D/3D acceleration for Mac OS 9? For Power Macs, maybe only older Nvidia GPUs support OS 9 and the newer ones are only good for OS X though some can be used in OS 9 for 2D stuff? I wish there was a database to rank the cards in each OS. Newer Nvidia...
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    USB / FireWire PCI combo card for a Power Mac 6400 ?

    There exits Sonnet specific nvramrc patches for Sonnet card PCI-PCI Bridge problems that you can download. A nvramrc patch for general PCI-PCI bridges in Gazelle (6500, TAM) based Power Macs is discussed at #232 I don't know if Alchemy (6400) has the same problem. If it does then a...
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    Ok, thanks. At least it found the PCI card and the BARs. I guess now I need to look more closely at what it wants to do with the BARs. I may need to get a SiI 3112 or 3114 card or make the code think a different PCI card that I have is a Sil card.
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    Looks like there was a problem in the DirectHW library. pciutils works because it contains its own version of the DirectHW library. I updated the 3 projects so now flashrom should be able to find the PCI card in Mac OS X 10.4. First verify that flashrom can find the card: sudo flashrom -VVV -p...
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    I made forks of pciutils, flashrom, and directhw that you can compile on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and later. https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/silicon-image-sil3112-flashing-easier-way-using-flashrom.7013/post-475781 pciutils works (with directhw) so you can do sudo lspci -vvvnnxxx >...