>I'm curious if anyone has flashed a VST UltraTek ATA/66 card with the >firmware that makes it OS X compatible? ( >http://eshop.macsales.com/VST/ ) If so how was the performance of >the card afterwards?
Didn't work reliably on OS 9 or earlier ... FLASHed it back. >Anyone have it installed on a Beige? Yes. >I want to move my card from an 8500 running OS 9.1 to my Beige MT >rev.1 w/ 10.2.8. I'm cautious because my Beige freaks out easily >when introduced to new hard drives and/or controllers. It does not >take easily to change without a lot of mucking around. Your Beige is unstable. The most stable Beige configuration I've found is a Rev. 3 motherboard (would, and did, have a Rev. C ROM in it, originally) with a Rev. A ROM. Deletes Slave support, but then the only drives I have on the EIDE busses are a CD-ROM-R-R/W and a DVD-ROM-R-R/W, each with a bus to itself ... everything else is UW SCSI. Deleted code added in support of the Rage Pro chip, which actually was a fix to the Rev. B ROM. Oh, the CPU is a non-overclocked 533 MHz, the PCU is a modified 350 watt ATX unit, and the disk controller is a dual channel LVD/SE ATTO (sadly NOT OS X supported). Mixture of 10,000 rpm LVD/SE SCSI drives and HUGE 7,200 rpm UATA/133 drives with ACARD SCSIDE "Bridges". >My card was modified from a Promise card to VST but the flash ROM >chip was retained and not replaced with an EPROM as some card >modifiers did. If the performance of the card after the update proves >flakey I'll probably elect to just leave it in the 8500, which is >kind of a waste since it doesn't get used that much.But I'm also not >interested in spending more (than the ridiculous amount I already >have) on the beige for a new OS X ATA controller. I'll just stick >with the onboard ATA and SCSI card controller. The respective (PC and Mac) FLASHers are especially designed to be sensitive to the "signature" presented by the FLASH chip. One version comes with an ATMEL 49F001 (PC); the other version comes with a Winbond 29F001 (Mac). The FLASHers check the signature before proceeding. You may have to kludge the FLASHer to accomplish your goal. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
