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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    sabbate
    Posts: 110 from 2013/7/7
    From: Palermo - Italia
    hi all

    I wanted to update my powermac which adapter should I buy?

    thanks
  • »02.03.15 - 10:27
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  • Jim
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Whatever happened to the driver that was created for other controllers?
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »02.03.15 - 12:28
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    sabbate
    Posts: 110 from 2013/7/7
    From: Palermo - Italia
    I checked the website morphos in the compatibility list and is mentioned controller sil
  • »02.03.15 - 13:32
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  • Jim
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Quote:

    sabbate wrote:
    I checked the website morphos in the compatibility list and is mentioned controller sil


    Yes, from what I understand 2 channel Silicon Image 3x1x controllers are supported natively in MorphOS now.
    But I thought someone else had recently mentioned a second controller series with drivers.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »02.03.15 - 13:38
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2444 from 2003/2/24
    Sil3112 based cards are <10€ on eBay and should work out of the box.

    You might even be able to reflash them to PPC/OF allowing use in OSX and cold boot from SATA.

    [ Edited by Kronos 02.03.2015 - 16:42 ]
  • »02.03.15 - 13:41
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  • Jim
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Quote:

    Kronos wrote:
    Sil3112 based cards are <10€ on eBay and should work out of the box.

    You might even be able to reflash them to PPC/OF allowing use in OSX and cold boot from SATA.


    Before I moved solely to G5s and PowerMacs, I used a combo of an IDE boot drive and an SATA drive controlled by an Sil based card to get by the firmware issues (obviously under MorphOS exclusively).
    Now let's see, who's idea was that...
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »02.03.15 - 14:05
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12402 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Whatever happened to the driver that was created for other controllers?

    It's still there:

    http://www.219.dic.at/?pid=detail&cat=software&type=projects&id=e9fab237
    https://morph.zone/modules/news/article_storyid_2076.html
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9662&forum=9&start=9
  • »02.03.15 - 15:08
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  • Jim
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > Whatever happened to the driver that was created for other controllers?

    It's still there:

    http://www.219.dic.at/?pid=detail&cat=projects&type=native&id=e9fab237


    Very nice!
    Thanks Andreas, I've been thinking about that one lately.
    Promise controllers...wonder if there is a speed difference?
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »02.03.15 - 15:11
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