Well to start off, I picked up my s900 a few weeks ago at a pool party for free, and I've been playing with it since it at least feels faster than my main Mac, a Power Macintosh 6500/250. It has one of those DayStar nPower 2x180MHz 604e CPU cards, so it probably IS faster. In any case, in an attempt to get an IDE controller on it, I've been trying to flash one of my Promise 100TX2 cards to work with MacOS (free with any Western Digital hard drive over 160GB), but so far haven't been successful. I've used ResEdit to copy the contents of the "fwre" resource from Sonnet's latest Tempo ATA100 firmware flasher and paste it into the data fork of a blank file. Tried to flash it over on my PC, but apparently the two cards use different ROM sizes(Mac=64KB, PC=16KB). However, I was looking around at the FastTrak ATA100 mods, and they apparently require the Promise ATA100 non-TX2 card (website emphasized non-TX2), and the BIOS file on the hack website happened to be 64KB. It just occurred to me that since all of these boards use the same controller chip, Promise has probably reduced the visible flash ROM size to 16KB somehow (SMT resistors?). Any thoughts?
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