Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
>> Sonnet PCI cards (i.e. Crescendo 7200) max out at 500 MHz.
>> Faster cards supported by SonnetLibrary are not Sonnet cards
>> but various PMC cards to be installed on a PCI carrier board.
> The card I was offered via eBay was listed as a Sonnet card pulled from a Mac clone.
Only PCI cards (or non-PCI cards on a PCI carrier) are of use in a PCI-enabled classic Amiga. Faster than 500 MHz Sonnet cards are not PCI but for proprietary Apple connectors.
> If the listing was incorrect, at least it made me aware of the availability of 800 MHz card.
If the listing claimed it was a PCI card, then it definitely was incorrect. Overall, non-PCI Sonnet cards go up to 1.8 GHz.
> I you now state that there were 1 GHz cards.
As I wrote, these are not Sonnet PCI cards but various (non-Sonnet) PMC cards to be installed on a PCI carrier board. The support library is called SonnetLibrary simply because it all started with Sonnet PCI cards. Most cards currently supported by SonnetLibrary are non-Sonnet cards, though.
> the few G4 level cpus still available range around 1.3 GHz (unless you include the 7448).
None of these Sonnet cards are PCI so irrelevant for PCI-enabled classic Amiga.
So provide me some info about the PMC cards.
And the Mac compatible the card was listed along with Sonnet cards, and was listed as PCI, not a proprietary interface.
But again, could be wrong.
As to the 1.3 GHz cpus I was referring to, that's just the stock of processors NXP has left (outside of the 7448). Its surprisingly very few.
So, references for the PMC cards and the carriers?
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