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Post #8 by Syntho
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 11 Sep 2014 - 10:47
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/anyone-with-a-9600-willing-to-test-something.125/
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I think I got it!

I tried everything in the NewerTech Maxpowr control panel to no avail, but the one thing I skipped over in it was the motherboard's own L2 cache. I believe it's soldered in on a 9600/200. The settings I set the L2 onboard cache to were Off, and Off if CPU's cache is bigger (or something like that).

I didn't know what the effect would be of turning back on the motherboard's L2 cache but I did it anyway, and what do you know... the NewerTech extension and the MOTU extension play along together now. I guess this means that the MOTU extension is expecting to see some motherboard L2 cache and when it doesn't see it it freaks out.

That's funny because I have some other MOTU software that won't work unless I have a physical SCSI drive attached to my 9600, IDE or SATA alone won't work. That same software works on G3s/G4s that didn't come with SCSI however, so I guess if the Mac was originally built with SCSI, the MOTU software knows it and it won't work without it.

I wonder if the same thing applies here but to the L2 cache on the motherboard itself. Both the Sonnet and NewerTech software seemed to turn it off.

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