At 02:11 -0700 08/13/2002, Howie S wrote: >The driver for the Jackhammer was never >developed beyond a certain point... 1999 perhaps? In any event, since the >driver loads at startup each and every time instead of, for example, >residing on a Flash ROM on the Jackhammer itself, it's stuck in 1999.
While there is a Control Panel for the JackHammer, the driver that makes the card work actually does reside on a Flash Memory chip on the JackHammer. With each new version of the Control Panel, the driver in Flash would be automatically updated the first time you opened the new Control Panel. And you can downgrade the driver by opening the older control panels. But you are correct, there were no new Control Panels and firmware drivers written to make the SCSI portion work wtih later OSs. >If the ethernet portion works under OS X, well, that's pretty amazing, but >definitely good news. If you said that the SCSI portion worked under OS X, >I'd break out the single malt Scotch and celebrate. The Ethernet driver, on the other hand, is pure extensions. This makes it conceivable that the ethernet is working under OSX. It is possible that OSX has flexible enough built-in ethernet drivers that it is recognizing the very common ethernet chip set which lives on the E100 card. However, it was my understanding that the ethernet portion of the E100 appears to be in a very unusual PCI slot (which is why the E100 extensions were normally needed to make ethernet work; they patch OF so that the oddball/non-existent PCI slot would be recognized) and I would be very surprised if OSX manages to recognize that "slot". I believe we're still waiting to hear for sure whether he has the ethernet connected to the E100 card or to the Apollo card. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
