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|    Christian Holzapfel to Christian Holzapfel    |
|    Re: New MCA card dreaming    |
|    31 Dec 23 05:01:41    |
      From: google@holzapfel.biz              Christian Holzapfel schrieb am Sonntag, 31. Dezember 2023 um 12:43:45 UTC+1:       > Could be the right time to create a 10/100 base card to standard PCI slot       adapter...              Daughter card receptacles are 2x Molex 71436-0X64, the base board has 2x Molex       71439-0X64.              Would still need to hack the base board to identify with a unique Card ID, if       we want to use it in parallel to our Ethernet adapters.       Could be the ASIC reads it at startup from the onboard 24C02 VPD EEPROM, that       at least contains that card ID at the first two bytes.       Also likely and worse locations are the base board CPLD logic ICs or a fixed       ID inside the ASIC, but that would be against the modular effort IBM put into       this board.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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