Sonnet ATA 100/133 & 133 Trio card are all so called Promise chip cards with firmware by FirmTek. These cards all work well but have the 8GB limit on old world Macs. They early on had the advantage of working with nearly all IDE CDRW & DVD RW drives. They still work with a few drives the Acards don't but improved firmware has let the Acards other then the ATA 66 work with most IDE CDRW & DVD drives.
Wait a min the B&W machine is a New World ROM Mac!!! There should be no 8GB limit. I believe the Beige G3 was the last machine made with this limit!
Firmtek also wrote the firmware for the VST UltraTek/66. I suspect that they are simply updating/reusing that code on the later machines, leading to similar issues, but also similar flexible compatibility with removable media drives.
Do the Sonnet ATA 100/133 have issues with the lower slots in the J700/S900 the way the VST card does? I'm pretty sure that's an artifact of how they wrote the firmware.
Jeff Walther
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