Sonnet PPC PCI Card

[Aminik]

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.

(attempted only with Amigaos 4)

I am no expert on such things, a programmer might understand better what those things mean. I can point to this user this thread as he might give you more info on the errors he received which errors may help understand more on this issue.

[Aminik]

@Piru

Probably it is pointless, but i understand him, he just have to try it to see it for himself, to see the errors feedback, it is useful to know. I would have done the same thing if i owned a mediator.

@Hans. I do not know if it is a nightmare or not, but if Elbox had abandoned this project surely something serious had happened.

Only consider that if it was successful , IF, it would have been the cheapest way ever to equip an A1200 or A4000 with a PPC card! AmigaOs 4 would have rocketed in terms of sales!! Thats a big IF...

[Aminik]

I see that the Sonnet PCI case is a bit of a taboo topic here , or it has been discussed so much in the last years and came to so many empty speculation that no one wants to hear about a possibility on this project!

Anyway i believe that, after seeing the Natami specifications,  which includes 2 pci slots and a cpu expansion probably for ppc, then maybe the Natami team would implement the idea of the Sonnet card because i think they are also enhancing the kickstart.

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....