Always wanted a cheap PPC card?

[nexus]

we have not tested the PCIE version with required adapter
the card is PCI or PCIE we are using the faster PCI version atm

[Hedeon]

Lot of blah blah immediately that they are hard to find....Just bought one this morning for 39 dollar. People are just too lazy to look. And read for that matter. They were even linked to in the different threads.

[nexus]

Originally Posted by spudje

Although I long ago gave up the Sonnet route I'm still following just of of interest. Some naive and probably stupid idea, but since for these PCI-E cards we need a (PCI) adapter anyway, would it make sense to work on an Amiga CPU slot to PCI-E adapter instead of putting it in a PCI slot?

Mmm, would that even work without a 68k CPU, which you would then need on the mainboard.

they are PCI what we support better check ebay ton there atm R088J DELL part#

[knightbeat]

Originally Posted by Marlon_

The Killer cards which this thread refers to goes for around £50~, and you would've known that if you actually read the thread instead of assuming...

I assume you're in the UK, Marlon. Have you found a UK retailer selling this card? I've found various international sellers on ebay, but none in the UK and a trawl of online retailers hasn't turned up anything yet.

As a general Q, is this the first time this card has been used for non-NIC use? It may have value as a way to speed-up QEMU performance.

[nexus]

far as i know yeah the card didnt get much use but just being a nic
why there arent really any FNAapps made besides what they gave you
would be even less of them if it wasnt for dell using them as none could justify the cost of the M1 or the K1
as you can see online most didnt even believe it did anything or anything worth $150-$250
why after these 2 they were stripped down and sold for less as you can see on the pcie version no fpga broadcom chips onboard just cpu
visiontech sold 1 the xeno pro that had audio then they got even cheaper with the 2100 that is just a nic nothing else added

now having said all that the M1 and K1 are full SBC the flash runs a full linux kernal that you can access
the cd for these comes with all the tools source etc etc
i have the iso if anyone needs or wants who didnt get the cd
just fyi M1 and K1 are 100% same board just different firmware which lowered the clock to 333mhz and you had to buy the upgrade to use FNAapps
which was then flashed to the card from windows
the windows driver includes flashing tool and bin files etc

[indigolemon]

Originally Posted by nexus

just fyi M1 and K1 are 100% same board just different firmware which lowered the clock to 333mhz and you had to buy the upgrade to use FNAapps
which was then flashed to the card from windows
the windows driver includes flashing tool and bin files etc

So can the K1 be reflashed? Or was it a one shot deal?

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by indigolemon

So can the K1 be reflashed? Or was it a one shot deal?

There's no reason to think it can't be reflashed. The tools that came with the card only flash the Linux side not the board parameters. So until someone actually does it successfully, it doesn't work yet to reflash the K1 to M1.

[indigolemon]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

There's no reason to think it can't be reflashed. The tools that came with the card only flash the Linux side not the board parameters. So until someone actually does it successfully, it doesn't work yet to reflash the K1 to M1.

Ah right, gotcha - will need to do more digging once it gets here. That makes sense though!

[nexus]

well really the flash can be disable or taken off and then it would just be waiting on PCI boot
have to do that anyways if anyone wants to set over 400mhz or hex edit the rom

[indigolemon]

Originally Posted by nexus

well really the flash can be disable or taken off and then it would just be waiting on PCI boot
have to do that anyways if anyone wants to set over 400mhz or hex edit the rom

I look forward to the results of your hacking about sir Good luck with bumping the RAM up as well

[nexus]

Originally Posted by grelbfarlk

There's no reason to think it can't be reflashed. The tools that came with the card only flash the Linux side not the board parameters. So until someone actually does it successfully, it doesn't work yet to reflash the K1 to M1.

from what i see that is not correct
the flash is in 2 parts and each needs to be flashed to correct areas of the chip
you need to know the commands which are hidden inside the exe

this is the update to k1 firmware k 1 _ f n a _ u p d a t e . b i n
ofc that isnt in what we have as it cost you $30
but doesnt do anything but enable FNA anyways

[nexus]

Originally Posted by indigolemon

I look forward to the results of your hacking about sir Good luck with bumping the RAM up as well

ram is the easiest part lol anyone with a hot air gun can learn to do in a day
small bga chips should be really easy to get them off and on
some may want to watch some GOOD youtube vids of this process

[esel]

Upgrading the ram is one thing, but will the card recordnize the new ram ?

[grelbfarlk]

Originally Posted by esel

Upgrading the ram is one thing, but will the card recordnize the new ram ?

It would generally mean a library update, assuming it actually electrically worked.

[Marlon_]

Originally Posted by knightbeat

I assume you're in the UK, Marlon.

Your assumption is wrong, I'm in Sweden, and it even says so on my profile.

[grelbfarlk]

There are various companies who will reship something if it's only available in the US. http://www.shipito.com is one, I've never used this particular company and don't endorse it.

The company I bought my K1 from on ebay now has more than 10 available, and my board smelled brand new in a sealed anti-static bag.

[Hedeon]

Pft If M1 is little, then K1 is micro.

[nexus]

Originally Posted by esel

Upgrading the ram is one thing, but will the card recordnize the new ram ?

well ram is all allocated by software and this runs linux os

as the pcie runs 128mb
so only thing for us is just how the library sets up what it finds
hardware side only matters when choosing incorrect sizes for the bank and or array config types
eg cant go sticking a 2GB chip on 1 spot when you can only read 1GB due to hardware reasons

[Tucker]

I'd find it a lot easier to locate one of these cards if there were photos of these cards that are supported by the: MediatorPCI PowerPC Library by Dennis Boon, such as the ...

Sonnet G3/G4 with max. 192 MB - as I understood it to be just the 7200 PCI versions that worked, which are really hard to find, and are usually very expensive. OR are now - ALL Sonnet cards now supported of this type, even the ones with a more Mac type PCI edge connector?

Photos of the Sonnet 7200 PCI are here: https://github.com/Sakura-IT/SonnetA...f-Sonnet-Cards

Also what do these below listed cards look like, and are they likely to be "hidden" away inside PC/Linux hardware cases, with owners of such systems probably unaware that they could be of great use to the Retro Amiga PPC hardware fan base?

Rapture G4 7410@450 MHz with 256 MB
Apocalypse G4 7410@450 MHz with 256 MB

These are mentioned on the GitHub webpages here: https://github.com/Sakura-IT/SonnetA...i/Other-Things

Ragnarok G3 750FX@800 MHz with 256 MB

This card is mentioned on the GitHub webpages here: https://github.com/Sakura-IT/SonnetAmiga/wiki/Ragnarok

BUT ... there are no photos of what to be looking for/trying to locate to use in a Mediator PCI board, AFAIK.

BigFoot Killer NIC M1 e300@400 MHz with 64 MB (Photo on - Dennis Boon's Blog)

http://amigafun.blogspot.com/2018/08...work-card.html

I've seen photos of the KillerNIC card on Dennis's blog, with the big chrome "K" on the board with a PCI edge connector, but this is the only one I've seen shown, and this is the most limited card with only 64MB on it, so knowing what to be looking for, and where I could locate one, to make an offer on one, might be useful, but currently I haven't located seen any of the other cards that are supposed to work, some of which seem to be in a PCI-e format, requiring an adapter to return them to a standard PCI format/so they can be used in a Mediator PCI slot.

[nexus]

no we havent did anything with pci-e cards and adapters for them
this readme tells you which cards we support at the current time
http://aminet.net/package/driver/other/SonnetLibrary