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Well . . . that was particularly inconclusive . . . but interesting . . .

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Inconclusive Part:

TattleTech General Hardware report:

TattleTech appears to read the NuBus Present State from the presence of the Slot Manager, in this case:

_____+Slot Mgr Version = 2 (ROM Based)

TattleTech NuBus/PDS report:

_____Total Physical PDS Slots Present = 1

_____Total Physical NuBus Slots Present = 0

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Interesting Part:

The NuBus/PDS report's Physical Slots Present result remains the same in all three possible states tested:

1) Stock IIsi: no NuBus Adapter (Chipset?) installed

2) NuBus Adapter w/o NuBus Card

3) NuBus Adapter w/NuBus Card installed

Additional states come to mind:

4) RCPII/IIsi Card Installed

5) RCPII/IIsi and Asante MacCon 30/si Cards Installed

. . . No Change!

Did some more NuBus Adapter on PDS passthru and got strange results . . .

. . . it either hangs or it tries to boot and then dies in an incredibly gruesome (very loud/disturbing sound effects) manner! 8-o

Meanwhile, it's time to buzz and re-flow at least one of the solder connections on my SuperMac Straight Up adapter RA Adapter Card . . .

. . . apparently I borked it! :approve: