Sonnet PPC PCI Card

[Hans_]

Aminik wrote:

tokyoracer wrote:
It would be good to hear is anyone has even attempted this on an Amiga PCI busboard.

I was watching this conversation and i know there is a guy from Amigahellas.gr who ordered a Sonnet G3 card and tried it on the mediator of his 1200. As far as i can remember, it was tested firstly without an accelerator and provided the message "not enough memory"  and then a "return code 20" , later it was attempted with acceleration 68040 and he got the message that  Kickstart/intuition.library.kmod cannot be opened or something like that. And the stopped the attempts as far as i can tell.

Given that Amiga OS 4 for classic Amiga hardware was written for the Phase 5 accelerators, and not a Sonnet card, it's not going to work. The boot code won't even be looking for a PowerPC card. A special version would have to be written. From what others have said, it sounds like it would be a nightmare to do.

Hans

[Hans_]

Or another idea, what if we start a machine with a 040 accelerator for example and amigaos 3.9 installed and see how the os3.9 will react to this card....

No need to. It completely ignores the card.

That's not entirely true is it? Amiga OS 3.9 will recognize that there is a PCI card with vendor and device IDs matching the Sonnet card, then, and only then, will it ignore the card. :-P

Hans