Mac G5 Quad with PCIe
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    Trekman
    Posts: 47 from 2020/11/10
    From: Germany
    Interesting ... I did a look in the "A" slot from my G5 (7,3) and see
    in there a Samsung EVO 850 with 120 GB (which should be a SATA III drive?!).

    I remember that sometimes when starting the computer the "folder" sign appeared
    (no disk found ?!) and I needed to restart. Then it worked.

    The Samsung EVO 850 is confirmed to be working.
    In my case it runs as described in slot "A"

    So was there a SATA I or II version of this ssd drive, which should only work
    in slot "A" ?

    Maybe this ssd is somehow downwards compatible to the SATA I controller in there
    and thats the reason ?
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12343 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Samsung EVO 850 [...] (which should be a SATA III drive?!)

    Yes, it is.

    > So was there a SATA I or II version of this ssd drive,
    > which should only work in slot "A" ?

    The Samsung 850 EVO never came as SATA1/2. And as far as I understand, the "phenomenon" with the G5 is such way that the drive either works on both ports or just on port B, but never just on port A.

    > Maybe this ssd is somehow downwards compatible to the
    > SATA I controller in there and thats the reason ?

    Yes, apparently. As I wrote in comment #42, there are SATA3 drives that do work on SATA1 ports.
  • »25.02.25 - 20:06
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  • Just looking around
    Posts: 8 from 2025/1/14
    is there a way to check if MorphOS has found the Netcard/driver ? PCIscan or ?

    I have inserted the NIC RTL8111 card.

    but don't get an connection/ip to my network/internet

    in network i can see : rtl8168_eth.device:0

    i have also tried static IP, if dhcp is'n supported.. no luck


    /Peter
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2426 from 2003/2/24
    If network prefs can see it, it should be working.
    You could try ping to your router (in Shell) but my experience is that "no connection to internet" can often be solved either by a reboot (after saving your settings) or simply changing the entries in DNS server and hitting "Use" (which I guess kinda restart the network stack.).
  • »26.02.25 - 11:59
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  • Just looking around
    Posts: 8 from 2025/1/14
    no luck with ping..

    but i made a new install on an samsung SSD with succes.
    and when i ping my router i get answer :

    no route to host

    any suggestion ?


    edit: its working now :-) after 2 restarts yes yes :-)



    edit 2:

    auch not for long :-( after a reboot the networking is not working...

    when i ping i get : no route to host...

    and in logtool i get a lot of :

    int : RX Error




    [ Edited by Luc_DK 26.02.2025 - 21:38 ]
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