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Mystery Daystar PDS card.

Mystery Daystar PDS card. 68k 8 posts Oct 28, 2014 — Oct 29, 2014

#1 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 - 23:34

So my Quadra has this in the PDS slot.

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I have no idea what it does, and I couldn't find a pic of another Daystar card that looks like it. It does boot just fine without the card.

Any ideas on what it's for?

#2 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 00:41

Just guessing but it may be a cache card. From the looks of it, those chips look like memory of some type.

#3 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 00:45

Yep, it looks like one of their PowerCache cards

#4 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 00:51

Cache card for sure. chip layout is a dead giveaway.

#5 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 01:00

So...does my Quadra need it?

#6 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 01:11

No, you don't NEED it. It just makes things faster.

#7 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 01:55

Probably should have worded that better, would it benefit from it (which you've answered). I knew the IIci needed one for best performance, wasn't sure on the Quadra.

#8 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 01:58

Just a cache card for a PDS Quadra. That one is 25mhz so a Quadra 950 would work or 700? Cache does speed up a 68040, and if you have nothing else in that slot why not.