At 00:00 -0500 01/12/2003, dan_A wrote: >At 5:45 PM -0600 on 1/11/03, Jeff Walther wrote: >> >>I did some searching and it appears that folks are using these with >>9600s so I would expect it to work in the S900 upper slots. On the >>other hand, there's also a lot of discussion about flashing them to >>the Atto ver. 1.5 firmware, so maybe that's necessary. I'm >>reluctant to go that route without more information though, because >there is no flasher available to take one back to the Apple firmware. >-- >When I first joined the SM list about 1 1/2 (?) years ago I was >upgrading to OS 9 and a Sonnet G4. In preparation for this I had >flashed the e card that I had my startup (and only) drive attached to >and I lost it. I was lucky to have the ATTO. It enabled me to get the >machine going again. I was never able to get the e card back again >which was a shame because it was really fast. The machine just won't >boot if it smells it in the area. The ATTO has been friendly with all >my upgrades and additions. I actually have the old OEM Quantum 2.26 >GB connected to the ATTO internally and the Quantum Atlas 18 GB >connected externally. All has been working well since then.
By e card do you mean E100 card? That problem has happened to a couple of other folks. There are two solutions depending on how hosed the card is. The first is to install a different version of the E100 SCSI Control Panel (on a disk not connected to the E100, boot up and open the CP, which will automatically offer to reflash the card. If you can't boot with the E100 card installed, try hitting CMD-OPT-P-R before the start-up chime finishes chiming. This is slightly different than a PRAM zap when you do it that early and seems to get the computer past a fair number of start up obstacles. If there's no joy with any of that, the Flash Memory chip on the card can be removed and erased and reinstalled. After that the card won't interfere with booting (most likely) and when you open the E100 SCSI CP it will write new clean firmware onto the flash memory chip. Of course, that last requires a bit of soldering, but it's doable. 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
