[OpenBIOS] Back at it again( PCI Passthrough )

Jd Lyons lyons_dj at yahoo.com
Wed May 30 15:11:14 CEST 2018


Quickbench under OS 9 shows the PowerBook drive topping our around 12 Megabytes a second. I’ll have to check the native speed of this drive to see how much throughput I’m getting to the PCI Firewire card.

> On May 30, 2018, at 8:21 AM, Jd Lyons via OpenBIOS <openbios at openbios.org> wrote:
> 
> Just shows up as a generic pic device, the same way it would in Open Firmware on a real PCI slot.
> 
> pci(vendorID),(deviceID)
> 
> Firewire card works with OS 9 too, I connected my PowerBook in Target Disk Mode and duplicated a 365MB folder on the drive, worked prefect.
> 
>> On May 29, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On 28/05/18 20:07, Jd Lyons via OpenBIOS wrote:
>> 
>>> I picked up a PCI-E 1x to PCI adapter and gave a few cards a go. A Firewire card worked, I was able to use iChat AV with an old FW iSight, both video and Mic worked.
>> 
>> Oh nice! I presume these don't have FCode ROMs and so appear as unknown devices in OpenBIOS?
>> 
>> 
>> ATB,
>> 
>> Mark.
>> 
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