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Sonnet Tempo ATA133 and ATA100 PCI - PROMISE cards flashing quest

reddrag0n said:
Ah ok, well i tried to telnet into the quicksilver from my mac pro. Tried installing the telnet client and github said telnet was no longer available via homebrew. So is there another way to get the rom dump?
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The good news is, because you have a QS and I have a QS you can just use the script I have without any edits to set the card up for the Sonnet Flasher.

Just place the card in the lowest PCI slot and you should be golden.

Boot the QS into OS 9 and copy these files to a folder on the root of the drive( HD ) named ppc.

Boot into Open Firmware: Everything // do not type including // these are just notes so you know what is going on.

Code: 
dev pci1/@14  // This should be your PCI ata card in slot-5
boot hd:,\ppc\UTPCI6.txt \\ load the text file to setup the .properties for the card so that the sonnet flasher will flash it
boot \\ boot OS 9

Run the Tempo ATA133 Firmware FT100TX2.app to flash your card.

Let me know if something fails and I provide instruction on how to use the card once you have flashed this reduced firmware.
 

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My quicksilver loaded open firmware just fine, so how does that fix the problem of high sierra not downloading telnet from homebrew?
 
when i boot into open firmware, it says that is can't read UTPCI16.txt

maczip is giving me a type 1 error all the time, and if i use stuffit, the FT100TX2 is a document, not an app.
 
ok
0 > dev pci1/@14 ok
0 > boot hd:,\ppc\UTPCI6.txt can't OPEN: hd:,\ppc\UTPCI6.txt
ok

and i used ppc leopard to copy the file to a mac os 9 flash drive and still getting bad results

even tried my os 9 actual drive name
boot MAC OS 9:,\ppc\UTPCI6.txt can"t OPEN: hd:,\\:tbxi
 
ok, so got around the document/app, unzip in leopard, then copy to flash drive. now it sees the app, but the UTPCI6.txt still can't be opened
 
reddrag0n said:
ok, so got around the document/app, unzip in leopard, then copy to flash drive. now it sees the app, but the UTPCI6.txt still can't be opened
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Try:

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dir hd:,\

That should return a directory of the first HFS/+ partition of you hard drive. Likely you have your "ppc" folder on a partition other than the first partition Open Firmware is finding.

You can append the command to specify the partition or just copy the ppc folder to the correct partition.

dir hd:9,\ for a directory of portion #9 and so on. Common partitions are #4 #6 #9 and so on depending on the tool you used to partition the drive and how many partitions are on the drive.
 
DearthnVader said:
Try:

Diff: 
dir hd:,\

That should return a directory of the first HFS/+ partition of you hard drive. Likely you have your "ppc" folder on a partition other than the first partition Open Firmware is finding.

You can append the command to specify the partition or just copy the ppc folder to the correct partition.

dir hd:9,\ for a directory of portion #9 and so on. Common partitions are #4 #6 #9 and so on depending on the tool you used to partition the drive and how many partitions are on the drive.
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Ok, the drive is the only one in there with no partitions. Its strictly os 9. And the ppc folder is on the root of the drive, cant get more root that the surface
 
reddrag0n said:
Ok, the drive is the only one in there with no partitions. Its strictly os 9. And the ppc folder is on the root of the drive, cant get more root that the surface
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reddrag0n said:
Ok, the drive is the only one in there with no partitions. Its strictly os 9. And the ppc folder is on the root of the drive, cant get more root that the surface
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The are partition, the partition table for OS 9 Drivers. Likely your partition # is 9, but with only one HFS/+ partition Open Firmware should be finding it by default.

Append the dir command to point to the ppc folder so you can be sure it "sees" the file UTPIC6.txt and the other files in the PPC folder.

Code: 
dir hd:,\ppc

You are doing this on a QuickSilver, no?
 
This is the root and the card and hd properties
 

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reddrag0n said:
Flasher info
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My bad, I sent you the wrong patched flasher. The patch is pretty simple, we only open the DATA Fork of the flasher in Super Resedit and change the hex string for the proper device ID of the TX2.

I forget the proper Device ID of the TX2, so boot into Open Firmware and do:

Code: 
dev pci1/@14
.properties

Looking for the device ID.
 
DearthnVader said:
My bad, I sent you the wrong patched flasher. The patch is pretty simple, we only open the DATA Fork of the flasher in Super Resedit and change the hex string for the proper device ID of the TX2.

I forget the proper Device ID of the TX2, so boot into Open Firmware and do:

Code: 
dev pci1/@14
.properties

Looking for the device ID.
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device-id 00004d68
 

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reddrag0n said:
device-id 00004d68
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Sorry I was not clear, you need to run the .properties command before you run the UTPCI6.txt. Anyway pretty sure the device ID is 6268, just make sure.

Here try this flasher:

Same instructions as before only use this flasher rather than the first one I attached.
 

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