Hi,

At 3:42 PM -0500 04.1.16, Joshua Coombs wrote:
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>I've got Daystars IIsi cache adapter, which is pretty much the same as
>what you have.  There is a guy out there that has modified 120pin VME
>bus adapters such that you can stuff an asante ethernet adapter in, the
>adapter, and a powercache without modifying the SE/30's internals.  He's
>fallen off the net recently though so I haven't been able to get one.

I digged out "DayStar Cache & Expantion Cards USER MANUAL", now I know
we have same designed adapter and same problem which is the cards
conflict physically with FD and HD drives, right?
I solved it with moving the drives, but it might be not good idea for you.
I'll put some photos 'soon' anyway.

>> About SCSI to Ethernet adaptor:
>
>They show up on ebay every now and then.  I'm really curious how they
>perform compared to a PDS nic.

I've not compared them strictly and not tested Cabletron EA41x with
SE/30, so just generally(?) speaking, my SCSI to Ethernet adaptors are
twice slower than PDS NIC.
I also worry about a little bit if it is supported with 1.6.1 properly for
'030 Macs. Sorry for I can't test it now because my SE/30 is disassembled
for photo. I'll test it soon, too :)

>Hrmm... maybe I will go ahead and work on rack mounting my SE/30 just
>for giggles anyways.  If I can get the specs for the power supply I may
>forgo the monitor...  also a good chance the SE/30 will be retired if I
>can't quickly hop it up.  The website I'm running using it for a mysql
>box just isn't snappy enough.

I have another data.

SE/40  NetBSD-1.6ZG  DayStar Turbo'040 44.44MHz 128MB RAM
	Microseconds for one run through Dhrystone:   38.5
	Dhrystones per Second:                      25974.0

It is almost same as my Quadra800.
Quadra800  NetBSD-1.6ZG  '040 44.33MHz 139MB RAM
	Microseconds for one run through Dhrystone:   38.0
	Dhrystones per Second:                      26315.8

But, I feel that SE/40 is not so fast as my Quadra800 44MHz. Next is
the Resolts of bytebench-4.1.0 with using same HDD (FIREBALL SE6.4S).

BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1.0)
SE/30   '030 15.64MHz 128MB  Dhrystone 2   5142.1 lps  FINAL SCORE 0.6
SE/40   '040 44.44MHz 128MB  Dhrystone 2 50577.0 lps  FINAL SCORE 2.0
Quadra800    44.33MHz 136MB  Dhrystone 2 52044.2 lps  FINAL SCORE 4.0

SE/30 with DayStar PowerCache 50MHz might be 'FINAL SCORE 1.0'.


At 5:15 PM -0600 04.1.17, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
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>Rack an SE/30?  Isn't that a crime against Mac-dom?  :)

 :)

Cheers,
kazu inanaga