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- From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
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- Subject: Re: Daystar Powercache
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 22:06:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.133341.3697@arizona.edu> PIERRE@hacks.arizona.edu (Pierre Padovani) writes:
-
- >I am awaiting A/UX to arrive in the mail, and read in the news group about some
- >sort of support problem with Daystar Digital. I have a IIcx with a new (less
- >than 4 months old) 50MHz powercache, am I going to need to contact Daystar to
- >receive the correct drivers for A/UX 3.0? Or are the MacOS drivers (i.e. the
- >control panel) the correct driver.
-
- No worries. PowerCache works fine with A/UX.
-
- The only problem that I've seen mentioned or experienced is that the
- current version of the PowerCentral cdev v.1.3 crashes the A/UX Finder
- when it is opened. There isn't any reason (that I know of) to change
- the control panel settings, so this shortcoming has no practical effect.
-
- The previous version of the driver (called PowerCache v.2.4) did
- work normally with A/UX, so I expect that this incompatibility will
- disappear in a subsequent release.
-
- I've dealt with Daystar tech support several times (satisfactorily) but
- never managed to speak to someone familiar with A/UX. My understanding
- is that A/UX will inherit the "cache on" mode control panel setting from
- the initial MacOS boot even without having the PowerCentral cdev in the
- A/UX Control Panels folder. It will also inherit the PowerMath cdev
- setting from MacPartition, but for PowerMath to work (for Finder apps
- only, btw) the init part of the PowerCentral cdev must load, therefore
- the PowerCentral cdev must be in the A/UX Control Panels folder -- just
- don't try to open it and it "works" fine.
-
- There were a few grumbles about Daystar's older PowerCARD accelerator
- not working with A/UX 3.0, but it was also pointed out that Daystar
- offers a fairly liberal upgrade policy to the current PowerCache series.
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