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Mystery Daystar PDS card.

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-10-28 16:34:00 So my Quadra has this in the PDS slot. 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?

Posted by: pintodave on 2014-10-28 17:41:45 Just guessing but it may be a cache card. From the looks of it, those chips look like memory of some type.

Posted by: rickrob on 2014-10-28 17:45:02 Yep, it looks like one of their PowerCache cards

Posted by: techknight on 2014-10-28 17:51:09 Cache card for sure. chip layout is a dead giveaway.

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-10-28 18:00:59 So...does my Quadra need it?

Posted by: johnklos on 2014-10-28 18:11:46 No, you don't NEED it. It just makes things faster.

Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-10-28 18:55:27 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.

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-10-28 18:58:19 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.

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