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Another "New Old Stock" product has been added to my store, the Focus Enhancements LapisColor MV16-EN for PowerBook 5300. That's quite a mouthful. This expansion card gives you both an external display output *and* ethernet on the same card - pretty cool if you ask me. A version of this card...

Generally speaking, you always want to replace the SMD and through-hole capacitors on a Portable motherboard. They are one of the largest sources of trouble because they basically always leak. So that's priority #1. The non-backlit doesn't like to turn on from just the power adapter - it's...

Here's the wiki article about resolving that issue on early-production Powerbook boards: https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/wiki/Hardware#hardware-tweaks--fixes

If you do plan to replace the Pico with a Pico 2, my two cents is that you should not be desoldering from the bottom of the BlueSCSI PCB. If your board has pin headers holding the Pico in place, then desolder the Pico from the top only. As Eric mentions, it's very easy to damage the BlueSCSI...

This is the first I've heard about the 840AV showing CRC errors. Thanks for reporting that the updated build resolved your problem.

September 14 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Eric, Justin (jdmcs), Bruce, Jacob (Androda) Absent: Josh (Drake), fogWraith (Christian) Agenda: Item 1: Discussing the creation of an Administrative Group Notes: The Director of IT/Ops and Treasurer...

I don't really know, but the chip appears in the 6500 datasheet.

It looks like you have the 6500 schematic, the comm slot is on the same page as the PCI slot in there. Comm Slot II cards appear to have one interrupt pin instead of several like PCI slots. And on the 6500 the CS II interrupt goes to pin 64 of the OHARE chip.

Pico 2 uses a new chip, the RP2350A. It has twice the working RAM as its predecessor, and also twice the program storage (this is on an external chip, but 2x is 2x). Overall it will allow for more features, some of which will have to be Pico2-only due to RAM and storage restrictions on the...

It's possible, but I don't really know. Tried some random MAC addresses during testing and not all of them worked. That's part of the reason there are three: those ones worked properly. Yeah it's pretty funky stuff. Doesn't print amazingly well, but still "good enough."

I'm also very curious to see what your results show - should be quite interesting.

The listing is live on my site now: https://androda.work/product/comm-slot-ii-10-100-ethernet-cards/

The production order has arrived, so I'll be testing and listing the cards as fast as my spare time permits. Note that I am away all of next week, hence the blue popup on my site saying that shipping will be delayed.

I mean, if you want a Gigabit Ethernet Comm Slot II card just let me know. I definitely didn't find some Gigabit Ethernet PCI chips which are compatible with OS 9. (though honestly that would be minimal to no benefit over 10/100 due to Mac OS bottlenecks and OS compatibility limitations)

No, I made this adapter for ease of testing these comm slot cards during production. Overall though, I figure most PCI cards would work in the comm slot since it seems to just be "PCI Slot E1".

My latest experimental PCB arrived, a CS II to PCI interposer/converter. Note that Comm Slot II is not a direct pin to pin mapping of PCI, so this does change pin assignments. But it really is just PCI. Works fine with my Ethernet CS II card. Yes, I'm using a PCI slot for where the CS II...

Did a little more testing with the 7300's built in "plain 10" Ethernet port. ~170kB per second in 9.1 using iCab, sometimes spiking to 200kB per second. This at least helps to show that it's not 100% the driver's fault. Downloading from the internet in general seems to be very slow and...

It's not something I've really ever done before. I've used "mouse bites" as they are called to make boards that can be snapped apart. But not for modular implementations like this, where you can just break part of the board off and things are still ok. Something to think about though.

I've never set up modern FTP or AFP servers before. Have any pointers on how to do this? I did try some FTP host software from the Garden but that only resulted in about 80kB per second download speed.

Ah, we were saying basically the same thing. This is what I meant by "second half", adding a breakout or shortening to use this style connector. Are there panel-mount Ethernet ports that have the necessary magnetic components inside? The Ethernet jack I picked for this use case have that...