Help with L2 G3 Newertech upgrade?

[Mike Murphree]

On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Scott Strungis wrote:

> Hi listers,
>
> I am frustrated as all get out at this point.
>
> I installed YDL 3.0 on my stock 6400 (it took like 4 hours!) and it 
> runs nicely with a Voodoo3 card but quite slowly under X.  My primary 
> use for this machine is as a nice quiet server and it does this quite 
> well.  I got the Newer L2 G3 upgrade card in the mail today and 
> installed it under OS 9.  It runs nicely.  I tried to boot into YDL 
> using BootX and it locks up tight without showing the dog graphic, 
> plus the HD does not spin back up.
>
> I have tried using the PowerLogix software as well.  So far I have not 
> changed my BootX settings.  The G3 enabler loads, then the PowerLogix 
> init, and then the BootX.  I resedit-ed the PowerLogix init to a 
> filetype of scri so that the three load first, and in that order.  It 
> still locks up tight.
>
> Is there anyway to get YDL to boot properly using my G3?  I would like 
> to use YDL as a desktop from time to time and the G3 would allow this 
> nicely as it is QUITE fast under OS9.
>
> So does anyone have another trick?  Are there boot arguments that I 
> can use or something?

I have PC PowerBase (6400 equivalent) with the PowerLogix G3 
accelerator card in it.  I found that the system bus wouldn't run at 
the speed they said it would and had to slow it down some.  Seems like 
it was stable up to about 43 Mhz or so.  The processor speed was 8X the 
bus speed.

Mike