Help with L2 G3 Newertech upgrade?

[Mike Murphree]

On Feb 2, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Scott Strungis wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I thought that the 6400 ran at 40Mhz and the 6500s ran at 50 MHz so 
> the G3's never worked on them under OS 9....
>
> The Powerlogix software allows me to change the bus multiplier on the 
> card(?). I wasn't aware that this changes the bus speed of the Mac 
> itself.
>
> This lower bus multiplier allows your YDL install to run? Mine locks 
> up just after the initial kernel messages appear, and just before the 
> YellowDog pops up.

The PowerLogix card allows selection of the bus speed and the 
multiplier.  I had a 400 Mhz accelerator card, but I finally came 
across a note that mentioned the chipset was not reliable much above 40 
MHz.  It would crash infrequently in OS 9, but much more so in YDL.  In 
order to order to run at 400 Mhz, the bus speed had to be 50 Mhz.

Mike