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.
>modifiers did.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
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.
Hey, flasher worked just fine without kludging
I guess mine can not be flashed back without great difficulty so I'm stuck with this firmware. So far I have not noticed any problems in OS 9 on my Beige but I haven't done anything taxing on the I/O. OS X gets a test later today.
Mike
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