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    LCIII C22 polarity

    I got the original TDK PSU back in operation; blown fuse, switching FET, current sensing resistor and opto-coupler. Here's a link to a post that includes a mostly correct schematic for the 699-0153 model which was close enough to my 699-0003 unit...
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    LCIII C22 polarity

    Before I flipped this cap, I measured a load of just about 0.5A on the -5V rail before the PSU tripped. After flipping, I see only 10mA. So, >0.5A being sunk by an incorrectly polarized C22 is not a good idea and it certainly exceeds the spec of both the cap and the supply. The -5V rail on the...
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    LCIII C22 polarity

    So I picked up an LCIII for repair. The TDK PSU was toast - caps are good but the optocoupler is open-circuit and I'm awaiting a replacement. So I bodged into service a spare Astec Beige G3 PSU and the machine booted-up fine on its aged caps. I quickly recapped with tantalums (as you do) but...
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    Help Please - I've confused my Beige G3 trying to setup SATA

    There so many ways to hork a G3 doing this stuff! I've often had to resort to an OFW init-nvram command or to pull the battery to a while! There's so many variables... but in particular: what firmware is flashed on the SATA card? what version of OpenFirmware does your bootrom have? You should...
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    MODE32/System compatability

    I'd inject a word of caution here. On my SE/30, I had issues with the Rominator and BlueSCSI - so I reverted to the original ROM plus MODE32. And SE/30s can be temperamental with RAM configurations - so your mileage may vary.
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    Purchased a 400mhz G3 ZIFF Upgrade CPU but after installation G3 Still reports 266Mhz

    Neither Beige or B&W have -5V. Here's the pinout for both:
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    MODE32/System compatability

    Yep, my mistake. MODE32 must be installed on 7.5.3/7.5.5. When Apple licensed it from Connectix in 1994, they announced that a future release of MacOS would have it built-in. Never happened.
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    Purchased a 400mhz G3 ZIFF Upgrade CPU but after installation G3 Still reports 266Mhz

    You need to change the clock divider ratio. Refer to https://lowendmac.com/1997/overclocking-beige-power-mac-g3/ You may be able to over-clock it beyond 400MHz.
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    MODE32/System compatability

    A footnote to this: System 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 have MODE32 builtin. No need to install anything .. just enable 32-bit addressing in the Memory control panel and your dirty old SE/30 will happily see more than 8MB. I use 7.5.5 on my SE/30 with 16MB (4*4MB in bank A).
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    Yep, you grok the issue. My patch is just a cheap fix to get around the issue for my configuration. Lazy initialization would seem to be the solution so long as duplicate connections are permitted.
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    I did some debugging and the flashrom failure is due to a conflict between the pciutils and DirectHW libraries. The IOUserClient port is being obtained by the PCI library and the PCI bus is successfully probed. But the subsequently attempted memory mapping via the DirectHW library fails because...
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    I pulled your repos and rebuilt. See attached flashrom.txt and lspci.txt for the latest ouput. Better, but no cigar.
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    USB card for Beige G3

    ADS Technologies USBX-500 is what's in my G3 Minitower. Reliable 2-port card.
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    I cloned your trees to my G3 Minitower running 10.4.11 with TigerBrew installed and built and installed everything. DirectHW and pciutils seem to work OK producing this output - see lspci.txt. But flashrom has trouble - see flashrom.txt. Running under gdb, I see this backtrace - see gdb.txt...
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    Emulation and Virtualization on a Macbook Air M1

    Although UTM is convenient for running potted configs from the gallery, I find that for creating other configurations it adds another level of complexity. In particular for QEMU, it makes configuration switches more difficult to set. I've been experimenting with QEMU instances (guests) on a...
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    Attached are zipped binary source diffs for Linux built on Debian 8.
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    I can build and post a macppc Linux binary if dosdude1 posts the AM28F010 source diff.
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    And here's my verbose lspci for the device:
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    I meant flashrom -VVV -p satasii. My spew is attached.
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    SATA? In an old world PCI Power Mac?! IMPOSSIBRU! (Updated 11/22/23)

    Have you tried running flashrom with the verbose switch (-V, -VV or -VVV) to get more information? It's pretty specific.