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Sonnet Tempo ATA133 and ATA100 PCI - PROMISE cards flashing quest
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Ok, I misread what you said first and just assumed you had the Fasttrac 100 TX2 raid card like I do, but in that case the first flasher should have worked for you. I'm not sure what is going wrong, but let me try one more time to hack a fresh copy of the flasher and upload it.
hold......
Ok, last try here, if this one doesn't work I'm not sure what's going wrong.
Same instructions as before, boot OF run the UTPCI6.txt and boot OS 9, then run this flasher. It may( likely ) crash after it writes the firmware, but it should still work.
Same instructions as before, boot OF run the UTPCI6.txt and boot OS 9, then run this flasher. It may( likely ) crash after it writes the firmware, but it should still work.
Sorry, I never tried that card, only the Ultra 133 and 2 Fasttrac 100 TX2's, I can't say what is going wrong and debug remotely.
One the off chance you "reg" and "Assigned Addresses" properties are not the same on the QS:
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dev pci1/@14
.propertiesDo this without using the UTPCI6.txt, and post a shot of the results.
Ok, I spotted a typo in my UTPCI6.txt, try this one. Same instructions, try it with the first flasher I linked and the last one if that still doesn't work.
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dev pci1/@14
boot hd:,\ppc\UTPCI7.txt
boot
I found a generic SIIG IDE/PCI card and have been testing it in a G4 AGP machine. It seems to be about the same speed as the IDE connector on the logic board, but it does allow greater than 120GB size. Theoretically, a PCI card should be able to exceed the speeds possible from the logic board. I'm wondering if anyone has tested the Sonnet/Promise cards? (The SIIG card seems about the same speed).
There is some info here:
forums.macrumors.com/threads/post-your-ssd-cf-sata-pata-powerpc-benchmark-results.2063361/
What does that have to do with Sonnet ATA card flashing?
If your going to spam this thread with random ATA card speed links you could at least post a working link to the specific post where the benchmark is.
Anyway, if you want to compare, the Promise ATA cards flashed to Mac get a peak of around 82MB/s with a SATA3 SSD that's native Speeds on a SATA3 bus are around 400 to 500 MB/s.
The Promise ATA card with the PC Bios get around 80MB/s with the same drive in a PC. So either way are not getting close to the max speed of ATA133 or 32bit 33mhz pci( 133MB/s ). I can test the same drive on the ATA100 bus in my QS 2002 and the SATA 1 bus in my G5 to see how that compares.
long time no hear from me, i tried opening that file you sent, i keep getting that it can't open the UTPCI7.txt in OF. i tried downloading and opening in 10.5.8 and it doesn't work on the 9 drive, i even used os9 to download the file in clasilla and opened in maczip. then copied that file to the ppc folder, and it still says it can't open it. what am i doing wrong?
this is what i am typing...
Release keys to continue!
ok
0 > dev pci1/@14 ok
0 > boot hd:,\ppc\UTPCI7.txt can't OPEN: hd:,\ppc\UTPCI7.txt
ok
this is what i am typing...
Release keys to continue!
ok
0 > dev pci1/@14 ok
0 > boot hd:,\ppc\UTPCI7.txt can't OPEN: hd:,\ppc\UTPCI7.txt
ok
Some reason OF can't read the default partition. You can specify the partition number:
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dir hd:9,\You can glean the partitions from the command line in the Terminal App:
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diskutil listYes, if you want to use diskutil you have to do it from the terminal in OS X, however you can just check each partition number from OF.
and so on and so forth until you find the partition with the \ppc folder.
Normally a drive with OS 9 drivers installed will be partition 9 for the OS 9 partition, that's why we start with 9 and go up, but you can still try 1-8 too if you don't find it.
I just wonder what happened that OF can read the first HFS/HFS+ partition on you drive, is OS 9 still bootable?
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dir hd:9,\
dir hd:10,\
dir hd:11,\and so on and so forth until you find the partition with the \ppc folder.
Normally a drive with OS 9 drivers installed will be partition 9 for the OS 9 partition, that's why we start with 9 and go up, but you can still try 1-8 too if you don't find it.
I just wonder what happened that OF can read the first HFS/HFS+ partition on you drive, is OS 9 still bootable?
Os9 is on its own drive on the main ide chain, sure its set to slave because i unplugged the osx drive which was master. It still boots as slave and i am able to run it just fine as it is. Hence why i was able to download the file in clasilla and try it from there. Once i get home from work i will try what you suggested
Can't have a Slave without a Master
Cable Select is a better way to go there, you may want to check the aliases to ensure hd: points to the correct IDE.
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devaliasAlso check the env to see what boot-device points to:
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printenvUnpredictable results, as you can see because you can read the alias to hd: from Open Firmware.
Either you can have Master with Slave present, Master with no Slave, or Cable Select, but not Slave with no Master, that's just how ATA and plantations work.🤣
